Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

✍ Scribed by Christopher Snedden

• Publisher: Hurst
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
List of Tables
List of Maps
Introduction
Part One: Important Antecedents
What is Kashmir? Who are Kashmiris?
The prestige of ‘Kashmir’
The historical and strategic context for the British
The Sikh Empire and Punjab
Jammu and Jammuites
Part Two: Jammu and Kashmir, 1846–1947
The sale of Kashmir and the creation of J&K
The British in India and the greater region after 1846
Consolidating the princely state
Ongoing British strategic concerns re India’s and J&K’s neighbours
What the Dogras did not control
Challenges to Dogra rule
Part Three: From Princely State to Disputed State
The structure of India and J&K in 1947
The situation in August 1947
Hari Singh’s vacillation and its effects
J&K becomes an international issue
A contentious accession
The ‘People’s Plebiscite’
Part Four: Contemporary, and Divided, J&K
J&K’s five regions
Indian J&K
Pakistan-Administered J&K
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Azad Kashmir)
Northern Areas/Gilgit-Baltistan
Significant challenges to J&K’s post-1949 status quo
1950: Dixon and the possible break up of J&K
From 1954: India no longer interested in People’s Plebiscite
1960: Indus Waters Treaty
1962 China-India war—and subsequent rivalry
1963: China-Pakistan Border Agreement
1965: second India-Pakistan war
From 1965: China and Pakistan become allies
1971: third India-Pakistan war
From the early 1980s: Siachen Glacier
From 1988: Kashmiris’ anti-India uprising
1998: India and Pakistan confirm their nuclear capabilities
1999: the Kargil ‘war’
2001: Terrorism
2005: Opening the LOC to J&K-ites
Part Five: Resolving the Kashmir dispute
Attempts to Resolve the Kashmir dispute
The Official Positions of India and Pakistan
The India-Pakistan ‘trust deficit’
Since 1947: an increasing desire for independence
One way to resolve the Kashmir dispute: Let the People Decide
Conclusion
Appendixes
Appendix I: The Mountains of, and around, J&K
Appendix II: Maharajas of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir
Appendix III: Rules for Visitors to Kashmir
Appendix IV: Wars in, or over, Jammu and Kashmir since 1947
Appendix V: Districts of Jammu and Kashmir
Notes
Bibliography
Index