Kashmir in India and Pakistan Policies.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Biographical notes on the authors
- 1. Introduction
- PART I: A brief history of the Kashmir conflict and Indo-Pakistani relations
- 2. Introduction: Tracing the conflict's genesis and dynamics in a tailored manner
- 3. Kashmir before and after partition
- 3.1. The artificially stitched political entity
- 3.2. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: a deified Lion of Kashmir
- 3.3. The accession to India and the question of plebiscite
- 4. India-Pakistan relations in the formative decades
- 4.1. Partition of the subcontinent and the first Kashmir war
- 4.2. The 1960s: Pakistan's revisionism in Kashmir
- 5. Fateful transformations of the 1970s and 1980s
- 5.1. The disintegration of Pakistan
- 5.2. The war in Afghanistan and the Kashmir issue
- 6. The turbulent 1990s: Insurgency and the bomb
- 6.1. The insurgency in IaJK
- 6.2. Nuclear neighbours
- 7. Kashmir imbroglio and Indo-Pakistani relations in the 21st century
- 7.1. The new post-9/11 dynamics
- 7.2. 2010-2020: The decade of lost hope
- 7.3. India-Pakistan-Kashmir: Grim prospects
- PART II: The role of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan's domestic and international policies
- 8. Conceptualising the centrality of Kashmir in Pakistan's narrative
- 9. Nation building and Kashmir
- 9.1. The inception of an ideological state
- 9.2. The army has the state
- 9.3. Pakistan's stance on Kashmir-Key components
- 9.4. Persistent quest for Kashmir
- 9.5. Sociopolitical effects of radicalisation
- 9.6. Mainstream political parties and Kashmir
- 9.7. Selective approach to human rights
- 10. Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan's policy
- 10.1. AJK as geostrategic and political construct
- 10.2. Vanishing heritage and migration.
- 10.3. AJK and the proxy war in Kashmir
- 10.4. Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan's policy
- 10.5. Sectarian challenges
- 10.6. China in Gilgit-Baltistan
- 11. Kashmir dispute in the international policy of Pakistan
- 11.1. The accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India
- 11.2. The centrality of Kashmir issue
- 11.3. Internationalisation and plebiscite
- 11.4. Constructing India as the 'arch-enemy'
- 11.5. Strategic alliances with powerful actors
- 12. Reframing Pakistan's domestic and international objectives
- PART III: The role of Jammu and Kashmir in India's internal and international policies
- 13. India's values focussed on Jammu and Kashmir
- 13.1. The illusion of free choice
- 13.2. A policy of faits accomplis
- 13.3. The twelve pillars of India's stance vis-à-vis Kashmir
- 13.4. The territorial integrity of India and other core values
- 13.5. Affective factors and correlates of territorial integrity
- 14. Creations within creations and their fears
- 14.1. Artificial creations in South Asia: India and Pakistan
- 14.2. Jammu and Kashmir as an artificial creation
- 14.3. Threats to the territorial integrity of India
- 14.4. The impact of Pakistan and the Cold War
- 15. The spectre and structure of conflict
- 15.1. Why else should Jammu and Kashmir matter?
- 15.2. The spectre of Islamisation, Jihādism and terrorism
- 15.3. The causal structure of the so-called ethnic and religious conflicts
- 15.4. Causal ramifications behind the Kashmir conflict
- 16. Transforming identities and ideologies
- 16.1. The Kashmīrīyat construct and Kashmiri nationalisms
- 16.2. A tilt towards religion and its political underpinnings
- 16.3. A transformation of the Kashmiri identity and its constructs
- 16.4. The demographic threat to India's security and the sexual Jihād
- 16.5. The wreckage of secularism as foundation.
- 17. Military tagil wagging the State
- 17.1. The flirtation of the Indian brass with saffron nationalism
- 17.2. India and Pakistan: Toxic structures of military rule
- 17.3. The saffronisation of the Indian Armed Forces
- 18. The harder the pressure, the looser the bond
- 18.1. Public trust in power versus public perception of Kashmir
- 18.2. Kashmir's symbolic dimension
- 18.3. The hardened spirit of bilateralism
- 18.4. Kashmir through the nuclear magnifying glass
- 18.5. A new incarnation of the Kashmiri rebellion
- Epilogue
- References
- Index.