{"product_id":"a-modern-history-of-jammu-harbans-singh-9789354477300","title":"A Modern History of Jammu and Kashmir, Volume Three","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis third volume in Harbans Singh's important and insightful trilogy on modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJammu and Kashmir examines the period from 1975, when Sheikh Abdullah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturned to active politics, after the Indira-Sheikh Accord, to head a Congresssupported\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernment, to the present day. The book discusses the emergence of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe separatist movement, the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edrastic decision of the BJP Central government to abrogate Article 370 of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndian Constitution-which granted special status to the state-and bifurcate the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estate into two Union Territories-Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the time of its creation, Jammu and Kashmir has always been fraught with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econflict. But nothing can compare to the decades of aggressive militancy that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estate has seen since the 1980s, with Pakistan playing a central role in the violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand chaos. Separatist groups like the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, among\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eothers, and terrorist organizations such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is backed by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePakistan, have pursued a campaign of 'freeing' Jammu and Kashmir from what they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescribe as 'Indian rule'. India's security forces have maintained a heavy presence in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe state to counter these plans. These turbulent years-when thousands have died\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand there have been protests across the state-have thrown Jammu and Kashmir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto a limbo. As political parties-the National Conference and the Congress, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen the People's Democratic Party and the BJP-tried to wrest control of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estate from each other, it is the people who have suffered the terrible consequences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the power struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he concludes his monumental 3-volume study of Jammu and Kashmir-from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etime it was created as a political entity by the Dogras in the 19th century to its current\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estatus-the author also looks to the future, warning of the possible consequences of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupreme Court's verdict upholding the abrogation of Article 370.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harbans Singh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354477305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354477300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.98d","brand":"Harbans Singh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519858159871,"sku":"9789354477300","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47bbd337-bb51-4e35-b7e7-186d116a1502.jpg?v=1778739256","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-modern-history-of-jammu-harbans-singh-9789354477300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}