The Untold Story Of The People Of Azad Kashmir

Author : Christopher Snedden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Azad Kashmir
ISBN : 0231702507

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The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir by Christopher Snedden Pdf

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (also known as "Free Kashmir") is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Christopher Snedden offers a rare history of the territory's largely forgotten people and the conflict that continues to define their status within the nation. He contends that in October 1947, pro-Pakistan Muslims in southwestern Jammu and Kashmir initiated the Kashmir dispute, not Pashtun tribesmen invading from Pakistan, which is India's official narrative. Later named Azad Kashmiris, these people, Snedden argues, are legitimate stakeholders in this conflict and have very much inherited its legacy. Snedden critically reexamines Azad Kashmir's administrative structures, economic and political systems, and subordinate relationship with Pakistan, particularly in the years following the Kashmir dispute. Azad Kashmiris believed their administration was the only legitimate government in the region, and they expected to rule Jammu and Kashmir after its reunification by the United Nations. However, contrary to expectations, Azad Kashmir effectively, if not legally, became a (dependent) part of Pakistan. Long disenchanted with Islamabad, some Azad Kashmiris now favor independence for Jammu and Kashmir and hope to prosper without help from their neighbors. In his conclusion, Snedden assesses different ways to resolve Azad Kashmir's international status and the outstanding claims of the Kashmir dispute.

Author : Christopher Snedden
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789350298985

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Kashmir-The Untold Story by Christopher Snedden Pdf

A radical new look at the largely forgotten four million people of Azad Kashmir - the part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan, and separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory In Kashmir: The Unwritten History, politico-strategic analyst Christopher Snedden contends that in October 1947, pro-Pakistan Muslims in southwestern J&K instigated the Kashmir dispute - not Pashtun tribesmen invading from Pakistan, as India has consistently claimed. Later called Azad Kashmiris, these people, Snedden argues, are legitimate stakeholders in an unresolved dispute. He provides comprehensive new information that critically examines Azad Kashmir's administration, economy, political system and its subordinate relationship with Pakistan. Azad Kashmiris considered their administration to be the only legitimate government in J&K and expected that it would rule after J&K was re-unified by a UN-supervised plebiscite. This poll has never been conducted and Azad Kashmir has effectively, if not yet legally, become a (dependent) part of Pakistan. Long disenchanted with Islamabad, some Azad Kashmiris now favour independence for J&K, hoping that they may survive and prosper without recourse to either of their bigger neighbours. Snedden concludes by assessing the various proposals that have been mooted to resolve Azad Kashmir's international status and the broader Kashmir dispute.

Author : Virendra Gupta,Alok Bansal,Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Publisher : Manas Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Azad Kashmir
ISBN : 8170493153

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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by Virendra Gupta,Alok Bansal,Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Pdf

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: The Untold Truth' is a book about the territory of Jammu & Kashmir under Pakistani occupation. The region has been split up into two administrative units: Gilgit-Baltistan and Mirpur-Muzaffarabad, officially termed by Pakistanis as the 'Northern Areas, and 'Azad Kashmir' respectively. The media has constantly focussed on the Kashmir Valley, while the POK has remained neglected. Ignorance about the region borders on apathy. Even the circumstances under which the territory was occupied and the manner in which it was annexed by Pakistan have not been investigated by the scholars in requisite detail. The book traces the circumstances surrounding Pakistan's occupation of the territory, its current legal status, the growing popular discontentment and much more about POK's inside truth. Published in Collaboration with Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Author : Humra Quraishi
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0143030876

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Kashmir, the Untold Story by Humra Quraishi Pdf

On the socio-economic conditions of Jammu and Kashmir as a result of political turmoil.

Author : B. L. Kak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015047669141

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Kashmir, the Untold Story of Men and Matters by B. L. Kak Pdf

Author : Christopher Snedden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849043427

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Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden Pdf

Examines the strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British creation and handing over of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Maharaja's accession to India, and the unintended consequences of these actions.

Author : Shahla Hussain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108901130

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Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition by Shahla Hussain Pdf

Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late 1980s. In existing scholarship, ideas of territoriality, state sovereignty, and national security have dominated the discourses on the Kashmir conflict. This book, in contrast, places Kashmir and Kashmiris at the center of historical debate and investigates a broad range of sources to illuminate a century of political players and social structures on both sides of divided Kashmir and in the wider Kashmiri diaspora. In the process, it broadens the contours of Kashmir's postcolonial and resistance history, complicates the meaning of Kashmiri identity, and reveals Kashmiris' myriad imaginings of freedom. It asserts that 'Kashmir' has emerged as a political imaginary in postcolonial era, a vision that grounds Kashmiris in their negotiations for rights not only in India and Pakistan, but also in global political spaces.

Author : Farhana Qazi
Publisher : Newport Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780999410233

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Untold Truths of the Kashmir Valley by Farhana Qazi Pdf

Secrets or Death. In this collection of true stories, American scholar Farhana Qazi reveals why women keep secrets to survive another day of conflict. She meets with political activists, protestors and peacemakers to understand their emotional loss and love for Kashmir. Despite the chronic social suffering, these women fight to survive against all odds. These stories are the hidden truths of the valley.

Author : Christopher Snedden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849046220

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Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden Pdf

In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain's concerns lay elsewhere -- expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China "circling" J&K -- and their agents played the 'Great Game' in Afghanistan and 'Turkistan'. Snedden contextualizes the geo-strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British decision to relinquish prestigious 'Kashmir', and explains how they and four Dogra maharajas consolidated and controlled J&K subsequently. He details what comprised this diverse princely state with distant borders and disunified peoples and explains the Maharaja of J&K's controversial accession to India on 26 October 1947 - and its unintended consequences. Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.

Author : Rakhshan Rizwan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000071528

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Kashmiri Life Narratives by Rakhshan Rizwan Pdf

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings -- memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane -- published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India or in the diaspora. It offers a new perspective on these works by analyzing them within the framework of human rights discourse and advocacy. Literature has been an important medium for promoting the rights of marginalized Kashmiri subjects within Indian-occupied Kashmir, successfully putting Kashmir back on the global map and shifting discussion about Kashmir from the political board rooms to the international English-language book market. In discussing human rights advocacy through literature, this book also effects a radical change of perspective by highlighting positive rights (to enjoy certain things) rather than negative ones (to be spared certain things). Kashmiri life narratives deploy a language of pleasure rather than of physical pain to represent the state of having and losing rights.

Author : Haley Duschinski,Mona Bhan,Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031285202

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The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies by Haley Duschinski,Mona Bhan,Cabeiri deBergh Robinson Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexities of regional state formations, national power assertions and geopolitical competitions. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook examine diverse people’s struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability in relation to the colonial-era state consolidations, postcolonial military occupations, interstate wars, intrastate armed conflicts and cold war and post-cold war politics that have shaped and transformed social and political identities in the region. Contributors chart out varied and bold new directions by attending to local constellations of situated knowledges and practices through which people living in different parts of the disputed region make sense of the conditions and contingencies of their political lives. The handbook further initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship and undermined the pursuit of shared intellectual and political projects across physical and epistemological boundaries.

Author : Chhanda Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000849769

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The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and Beyond by Chhanda Chatterjee Pdf

The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India. It looks at various cases of border disputes and affrays such as disputes related to the incorporation of princely states like Kashmir and Jaunpur, the agitation for the creation of new political entities, post-partition reconstruction of Punjab and old pre-partition Punjabi leaders losing their relevance, the Kamtapuri movement, Khasi and Mizo and Chin dissatisfactions, as well as the secession of East Pakistan in 1971. An important contribution to the study of borders, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of modern Indian history, colonial India, Partition studies, borderland studies, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, film studies, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Omkar Razdan
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043633646

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The Trauma of Kashmir by Omkar Razdan Pdf

Author : Iqbal Chand Malhotra,M. Maroof Raza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : India
ISBN : 9390358620

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Kashmir's Untold Story by Iqbal Chand Malhotra,M. Maroof Raza Pdf

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000318722

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Kashmir and the Future of South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

This book uses an innovative people-centered approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal wars of partition that mark the South Asian experience. Chapters sensitively bring Kashmiri voices to the fore to examine Kashmir in the national discourses of India and Pakistan, resistance in the Kashmiri imagination and the Kashmir conflict in a global context. The book foregrounds how the space of Kashmir as a cultural, historical and political sphere persists and continues to haunt the postcolonial national present as the people of Kashmir and their cultural, literary and artistic productions cannot be contained within the regnant paradigms of the nations across which the region is partitioned. Additionally, the book explores how long-term resolution would demand engagement with historical forces, political actors and social formations that exceed the nation-state. An important contribution to the study of this troubled region, this book will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern South Asian history and politics as well as comparative politics and international relations.