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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790946903321

Autore

Widmalm Sten

Titolo

Kashmir in comparative perspective : democracy and violent separatism in India / / Sten Widmalm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-138-86265-7

1-315-02932-4

1-136-86694-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

954.6

Soggetti

Jammu and Kashmir (India) Politics and government 20th century

Jammu and Kashmir (India) History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Explaining violent separatism -- ch. 3. Jammu and Kashmir in transition -- ch. 4. The rise and fall of democracy in Jammu and Kashmir 1977-1989 -- ch. 5. Avoiding violent separatism in India -- ch. 6. 'The most dangerous place in the world' -- ch. 7. Epilogue : the causes of violent separatism and the role of ethnicity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracy and the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980s, and how the risk of a large-scale war has grown in South Asia in the 1990s. Solutions to this conflict need to be based on knowledge about what caused it as well as perspectives on why this conflict is so particularly dangerous. Widmalm offers answers in this book, with systematic comparisons over time to establish the causes of the conflict. He refutes the contention that ethnic factors are the main cause, while acknowledging that ethnic dividing line