‘Be Clear Kashmir will Vote for India’ Jammu & Kashmir 1947-1953: Reporting the Contemporary Understanding of the Unreported

The central point that this volume makes is that much of what happened in Jammu & Kashmir in the critical first few years (1947-53) needs a more careful reassessment. It is argued that there were little voices of ordinary people that should have been heard but were ignored. The political discourse that took centre stage even as it appeared more assertive and representative of mass public opinion was, however, as is now clear only a clever and misleading political move.Much of the source material upon which the author has based his study has till now remained unstudied and uncited – rare hard to find books, pamphlets, articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, official and party reports and so on. The volume takes the reader back in time to a kind of ring side seat. Kashmir’s cultural and historical legacy, the invasion, the issue of the plebiscite, the United Nations and the ceasefire, the Praja Parishad and most important of all the political scene and its key players – Prime Minister Nehru, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Sheikh Abdullah. Based on the nature of its sources the volume breaks free of a stereotyped approach to understanding the origin of what we commonly term today as the ‘Kashmir problem’.The volume argues that contemporary views recorded as they are in the heat of the moment with natural spontaneity often contain hidden lines and new light. Not surprisingly contemporary versions tell us a story very different from mainstream conventional writings on Jammu & Kashmir. This timely volume will radically influence the existing discourse on Jammu & Kashmir.  Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Tanwar, Raghuvendra

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Routledge

Deals with origin of the Unionist Party, its policies, its politics, moments of success, its failures as well as the commitment of its leaders to the colonial system and how their actions and programmes were influenced by the attitude of the British towards them. Shows passions unleashed in relation to the 'agenda of Pakistan' reduced the party to irrelevance and insignificance leading to its disappearance from the political science.

Politics of Sharing Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Manohar Pubns

<p>Major new study on partition. focus on rumor, news, and perceptions, a definitive work and exciting re-examination of the partition of India experience.</p>

Reporting the Partition of Punjab 1947: Press, Public and other Opinions

History

Asia

Manohar Publishers

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