This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir. Through an internal perspective, it charts the shift in the Kashmiri response towards the Centre and offers a detailed examination of the background in which separatist politics took roots in Kashmir, and the way it changed its nature in the militancy and post-militancy period. The volume shows how separatism and armed militancy, as manifest in the Valley in the late 1980s, (though augmented by external factors) have been internal responses to the changing nature of Kashmiri identity politics. It explores how the ideas central to Indian nationalist politics ― especially democracy and secularism ― echoed in Kashmir and were instrumental in dismantling the feudal structure and negotiating an autonomous space within the framework of asymmetrical federalism.   Seamlessly blending facts and incisive analyses, this book raises new questions about the nature of conflict and contestation in the region. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of Indian politics, especially on Jammu and Kashmir, and sociology, as well as government bodies, think tanks and the interested general reader.

Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of identity and separatism

History

Chowdhary, Rekha

Asia

Routledge India

Essential Social Psychology,3Rd Edition

Jammu and Kashmir: 1990 and Beyondaims to provide a comprehensive presentation of the politics of Jammu and Kashmir from 1990 right up to the current times. The book begins with the history of the state from the time of its accession to India to the onset of separatism and militancy around 1989. It covers the upheavals experienced due to militancy and the major shifts in the state's competitive politics. The book provides complete coverage and analysis of each election since 1996 with extensive electoral data--across the state and region-wise. It highlights the success of democratic politics in the period 2002-2014, principally due to effective separation of the democratic sphere of 'politics of governance' and the separatist sphere of 'politics of conflict resolution'. This is the second book in the SAGE Series on Politics in Indian States, which comprises volumes covering important trends in the politics of major states of India since the 1990s. The series situates the state politics in the larger socio-historical context and presents a detailed analysis of the significant patterns of competitive politics in the state in the light of the rise of new social forces and changing political economy.

Jammu and Kashmir: 1990 and Beyond: Competitive Politics in the Shadow of Separatism (SAGE Series on Politics in Indian States)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

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