Kashmir's Right to Secede
Kashmir's Right to Secede

Author: Matthew J. Webb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-02-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1136451455

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A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede. The book looks at the different accounts of the moral right to secede, and assesses both the theories themselves as well as the claims of those who want to separate Kashmir from India. Included within this analysis are the three main types of normative theory that ground the right of groups to secede in principles of national self: determination, consensual governance and rectificatory justice. Previous studies have discussed the causes behind the uprising in Kashmir against Indian authority and examined some of the legal and geo-political implications of the conflict for India and the wider region. This book provides a new way of looking at the Kashmir dispute, by asking what these theories tell us about Kashmir, and in turn what the example of Kashmir allows us to learn about these theories. It is of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Politics and International Relations.

Contested Secessions
Contested Secessions

Author: Neera Chandhoke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-12-26

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0199088764

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This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a ‘right’ to secede.

A Theory of Secession
A Theory of Secession

Author: Christopher Heath Wellman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-09-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780521849159

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This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.

Independent Kashmir
Independent Kashmir

Author: Christopher Snedden

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1526156156

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Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent. Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Maharaja Hari Singh’s leadership in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. As tensions continue to rise following government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?

Age of Secession
Age of Secession

Author: Ryan D. Griffiths

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1107161622

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A novel analysis of secessionist movements, explaining state response, the likelihood of conflict, and the proliferation of states since 1945.

Danger in Kashmir
Danger in Kashmir

Author: Josef Korbel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1400875234

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An excellent presentation of the many complex factors which stem from the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. The author as the original Czech member of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, brings to his narrative first-hand experience. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Secession
Secession

Author: Marcelo G. Kohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-03-21

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780521849289

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This book is a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective.

Kashmir
Kashmir

Author: Arundhati Roy

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1844677354

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Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self- determination continues to be brutally suppressed. Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people.

Kashmir in Conflict
Kashmir in Conflict

Author: Victoria Schofield

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9780755619757

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"Why has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquillity, become a major flashpoint, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance and challenging the integrity of the Indian state? This book examines the Kashmir conflict in its historical context, from the period when the valley was an independent kingdom right up to the struggles of the present day. Located on the borders of China, Central Asia and the Sub-Continent, the insurgency in the valley has also created serious tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing upon research in India and Pakistan, as well as historical sources, this book traces the origins of the state in the 19th century and the controversial "sale" by the British of the predominantly Muslim valley to a Hindu Maharaja in 1846. Through an exploration of the implications for Kashmir of independence in 1947, it gives a critical account of why, for Kashmir, self-determination may seem a more attractive option than affiliation to a larger multi-racial whole."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Autonomy of a State in a Federation
Autonomy of a State in a Federation

Author: Waseem Ahmad Sofi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-17

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9811610193

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The book discusses the issue of autonomy in India’s federal system and its precision and focused nature. It inquires into the various aspects of the problem autonomy of the states and its emerging trends with special reference of Jammu and Kashmir State autonomy. The book addresses many controversial unanswered question like – Should India adopt and opt for ‘dual’ or ‘competitive’ model of federalism, which has long since been discarded even in the land of its origin or should we evolve robust indigenous solutions to our problem of autonomy of States? To change the metaphor, do we choose a ‘regression model’ or a ‘development model’ of our federal polity? All these discussions which deserve sustained citizen interest and national debate, have been answered in the present book.