Kashmir's Untold Story
Author: Iqbal Chand Malhotra
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789390358625
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The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir
Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849041508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAzad (Free) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)) is that part of Kashmir within Pakistan, separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory. This book is a rarity: it offers a fresh interpretive history of the largely forgotten four million people of Azad Kashmir. The author contends that in October 1947, pro-Pakistan Muslims in south-western J&K instigated the Kashmir dispute-not Pashtun tribesmen invading from Pakistan, as India has consistently claimed. Later called Azad Kashmiris, these people, Snedden argues, are legitimate stakeholders in an unresolved dispute. He provides comprehensive new information that critically examines Azad Kashmir's administration, economy, political system, and its subordinate relationship with Pakistan. Azad Kashmiris considered their administration to be the only legitimate government in J&K and expected that it would rule after J&K was re-unified by a UN-supervised plebiscite. This poll has never been conducted and Azad Kashmir has effectively, if not yet legally, become a (dependent) part of Pakistan. Long disenchanted with Islamabad, some Azad Kashmiris now favour independence for J&K, hoping that they may survive and prosper without recourse to either of their bigger neighbours. Snedden concludes his book by assessing the various proposals to resolve Azad Kashmir's international status and the broader Kashmir dispute.
Kashmir, the Untold Story
Author: Humra Quraishi
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780143030874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the socio-economic conditions of Jammu and Kashmir as a result of political turmoil.
The Burning School
Author: Sandesh Raj
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781648056420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKashmir is burning in the wake of terrorist activities, stone-pelting mobs and life-crippling curfews. Homes and schools have been burnt to the ground. The government is looking the other way, locals are frustrated, and the youth have gone astray. In the midst of this is the mammoth task of coaching deserving students to help them crack one of the toughest exams in the country, the IIT entrance. Too many hurdles and too less time. Who would be foolish enough to take up the challenge at a time like this?Enter Naved Baig from Lucknow, an IIM graduate and an innovative thinker; a person armed with the blazing desire to dismantle the existing network of ignorance and terror in the valley. Will he succeed? Will he beat a hasty retreat? OR Will he meet a gruesome end at the hands of evil?Come into the world where police officer's ambitions and militant rage come face to face with rugged determination and unconditional love. Find how the power of ONE can set things right for a deviant group of kids with innocence lost and revolutionise even the most negative of mindsets.The Burning School is a story about how good education, purity of thought and self-discovery can help fight for freedom from the demons of the mind and finally make one emerge victorious.
Red Fear
Author: Iqbal Chand Malhotra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-11-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9389867592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was the reason for the first real armed encounter between Indian and Chinese troops on Chinese soil in the town of Dinghai on Chusan Island in July 1840? Were the orders for the invasion of Aksai Chin issued by Mao from Moscow in December 1949, at Stalin's behest? Was the pluck and raw courage of Lt. Gen. Sagat Singh to hold Nathu La first in 1965 and then again in 1967 the basis for General K. Sundarji's bold moves at Sumdorong Chu in 1986 and 1987? Red Fear: The China Threat catalogues, evaluates and infers the consequences of the political and military confrontations between India and China from the 15th to the 21st century. Contrary to the glowing accounts in popular imagination of a congruence of values and interests between these two nations, the relationship has been confrontational and antagonistic at many levels throughout these last six centuries. The lessons of history are hard to learn. Nevertheless, China seems to have learnt them better than India. It bided its time well and positioned itself to humiliate and denigrate India whenever possible as retribution for the perceived harm India and Indians did to its society and economy during the infamous Chinese century of humiliation between 1839 to 1940. For India, today's post-Galwan situation is reminiscent of the challenge India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru faced in 1962 and the identical challenge India's 14th Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces in 2020. Vedic philosophy argues that time is cyclical, and not linear, and by this argument, the year 2020 completes a 60-year cycle that began in 1960. How Modi responds to this challenge will define India's relationship with China as well as its position in the world through the rest of the 21st century.
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris
Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1849043426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe seemingly intractable Kashmir dispute and the fate of Kashmiris throughout South Asia and beyond are the twin themes in Snedden's meticulously researched book.
Kashmir's Untold Story
Author: Iqbal Chand Malhotra
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
Published: 2019-09-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789388912846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy has this state of siege in the Kashmir valley continued for 72 years since the Partition of India?What role has Pakistan played in it all of these years? And will there ever be a resolution to the militancy in the state? How will Islamabad get the forces of Islamic jihad--nurtured and based in Pakistan--to ever reconcile to the existing boundaries of J&K? How important is the ownership of the waters of the rivers of the Indus system for Pakistan--despite generous supplies under the Indus Waters Treaty--in determining an end to the siege within Kashmir?What are China's interests in J&K and how does the success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) for oil and gas supplies hinge on Pakistan's occupation of northern areas of Kashmir? Why does the future survival and growth of the Chinese microchip industry depend upon the continuance of China's control of the waters and dams in the Indus river system?Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified provides answers to these gripping questions and joins the dots in presenting the matrix of a consistent and compelling argument regarding the future of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Today, the state's water resources are coveted by the beleaguered Chinese microchip industry and it appears that this is going to determine the continuing militancy in the state. Malhotra and Raza argue that China and its client Pakistan will actively back the militancy, come what may.Delving deeper, the book also reveals amazing insights into the Government of India's policy towards the state, right from 1889, when it first imposed central rule and dispossessed the rule of the then Maharaja, till date. Owing to its strategic location, the intrigues within the state and the machinations of its neighbours have resulted in the government directly administering its affairs, one way or the other, for the last 130 years. It is a riveting account of the history of Jammu and Kashmir, from the time of its political and geographic consolidation under Maharaja Gulab Singh to present-day India.
Our Moon Has Blood Clots
Author: Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2017-10-29
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 8184003900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits-the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of 'Azaadi' from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and forced to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
Independent Kashmir
Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1526156156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany 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?
The Shadow of the Great Game
Author: Narendra Singh Sarila
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1472128222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold story of India's Partition. The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - and partition. Narendra Singh Sarela reveals here how hte Great Gane against the Soviet Union cast a long shadow. The top-secret documentary evidence unearthed by the author sheds new light on several prominent figures, including Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell and Nerhu. This radical reassessment of one of the key events in British colonial history is important in itself, but its claim that many of the roots of Islamic terrorism sweeping the world today lie in the partition of India has much wider implications.
