Eyewitness Kashmir : teetering on nuclear war / Arun Joshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joshi, Arun, 1957-

Series:

Asian commentary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

India.

International relations.

Pakistan.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2004.

Summary:

Kashmir, with its simmering secessionist movement and its position as a territory disputed by nuclear powers India and Pakistan, remains a global flashpoint. Joshi (Chief of Bureau for Jammu and Kashmir, Hindustan Times, India) teases out the various political strands of the region, analyzing the actions and motivations of the Indian and Pakistani governments, as well as the major local players. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Principal Players xxi

1 The Global Perspective 1

2 The Historical Perspective 9

3 The Ethnic-Religious Divide 12

4 The Day I Became a Muslim 23

5 The Abdullah Dynasty 35

6 Egoistic Claims to Democracy 55

7 Democracy Enacted with Fraud 75

8 The Long Shadow of the Militancy 90

9 The Flight of the Kashmiri Hindus: Collapse of the Kashmiryat 103

10 Dateline Srinagar 117

11 Factions within the Separatist Movement 139

12 Rise and Fall of the Kashmir Separatists 167

13 Kashmir's Second Dalliance with Democracy 185

14 Pre-Kargil Political Scenario 199

15 Millennium Kashmir 219

16 Turning-Point in Kashmir Terrorism 233

17 Fall of the Abdullah Dynasty 248

18 Multi-party Coalition Government: New Political Experiment in Kashmir 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).

ISBN:

9812103813

OCLC:

57013762