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Kashmir after 2019: Completing the Partition

Kashmir after 2019: Completing the Partition

Edited by Werner Menski and Muneeb Yousuf
1144 1395 (18% off)
ISBN 13
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9789354791215
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Hardbound
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English
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2021
Kashmir after 2019: Completing the Partition studies the post-2019 Kashmir situation, using an interdisciplinary conceptual framework by employing the kite methodology to analyse law-related conflict scenarios, facilitating a rigorous stakeholder analysis. The unfinished Partition of the Indian subcontinent on 14/15 August 1947 left Jammu and Kashmir hanging between visions of azadi (freedom) and competing territorial claims of India and Pakistan. This limbo, causing mounting costs over time, ultimately brought intolerable sufferings to the diverse Kashmiri people. The book is a passionate search for a peaceful future, looking ahead to post-2019 arrangements. It provides a historically grounded contextual analysis to explain why, by 2019, the time had finally become ripe for allowing India and Pakistan as the respective ‘other’ to keep the parts of Kashmir they have each been holding since 1947. This future-oriented and solution-driven edited book offers a diversity-conscious theoretical framework—the kite model—which suggests completing the process of Partition as necessary mental growth of identity formation. Contents: Foreword by René Pahoud de Mortanges Werner Menski Introduction: States, Leadership, Human Suffering and the Mythologies of Azadi Werner Menski and Muneeb Yousuf From Local Feudalism to Responsible Self-Governance: The Kashmir Kite Werner Menski, Muneeb Yousuf, Wahid Ahmad Darand Zahoor Ahmad Wani Flying Kashmiri Azadi Kites: Conflicts, Games or Responsible Agency? Jawad Kadir Keeping It in the Family: Understanding Kashmir as an Ancestral Property Dispute Sameer Ahmad Bhat Feudal Kashmir, the Princely State and Beginnings of Reform Efforts Sheikh Javaid Ayub Breaking the Myth of the Accession of Jammu and Kashmir Ashutosh Kumar Legal Status of Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian Union: Reading from the Texts Nasir Ahmad Ganaie, Muneeb Yousuf and Zahoor Ahmad Wani Continuing Problems in Kashmir during the 21st Century Muneeb Yousuf Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy: Blocked Desires and the Search for an Honourable Exit Amit Ranjan India–Bangladesh Border Issues: Tidying Up the Colonial Mess Werner Menski and Muneeb Yousuf Concluding Analysis: Completing the Partition and Facing New Challenges Index