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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815966403321

Titolo

The Kashmir question : retrospect and prospect / / editor, Sumit Ganguly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-75657-0

9786610232345

1-135-75658-9

1-280-23234-X

0-203-50416-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GangulySumit

Disciplina

954/.6052

Soggetti

Jammu and Kashmir (India) Politics and government

India Foreign relations Pakistan

Pakistan Foreign relations India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in a special issue of India Review, Volume  2, numbers 3.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Kashmir QuestionRetrospect and Prospect; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; India's ""Potential"" Endgame in Kashmir; Pakistan's Endgame in Kashmir; Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in Theory and Practice; US Policy and the Kashmir Dispute: Prospects for Resolution; Politics, Proximity, and Paranoia: The Evolution of Kashmir as a Nuclear Flashpoint; Kashmir and Tibet: Comparing Conflicts, States, and Solutions; Kashmir: All Tactics, No Strategy; Abstracts; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

India, which had been created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state to demonstrate its secular credentials. Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir because it had been created as the homeland for the Muslims of South Asia. After the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir lost substantial ground. If Pakistan could not cohere on the basis of religion alone it had few moral claims on its co-religionists in Kashmir. Similarly, in the 1980s, as the practice of Indian secularism was eroded,



India's claim to Kashmir on the g