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Sumit Ganguly

The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

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This book traces the origins of the insurgency in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The first theoretically-grounded account, and the most complete, it is based on extensive interviews. Ganguly's central argument is that the insurgency can be explained by political mobilization and institutional decay. In an attempt to woo the Muslims, the government dramatically expanded literacy, mass media, and higher education. Meanwhile, fearing potential secessionist proclivities, it stifled the development of political institutions. Unable to express dissent in an institutional context, the Kashmiris resorted to violence.

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Cambridge University Press
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February 13, 1999
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6.14 x 0.46 x 9.21 inches
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debdip k. mukherjee

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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2001

Easily the most detailed and well organized treatise on this unfortunate conflict. While on one hand it establishes the nefarious designs of the Pakistani establishment, it also exposes Indoor Gandhi's chicanery in subverting the will of the Kashmir electorate via crass political subterfuge (e.g. transfer of Governorship to her puppet, a certain Jagmohan Malhotra). One of Dr. Ganguly's proposals, granting autonomy, is a dangerous one; this could lead to similar demands from the other disturbed states. It is critical that we listen carefully to the demands of the disenfranchised and work to mitigate decades worth of pain. The 1965 conflict deserves a more thorough coverage though.

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Margaret Shaw

More to this conflict than you see on CNN

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2002

The problems involving Pakistan, India and the people of Kashmir are complex and over time have become more and more volatile. To understand the history of this area and why it poses such a threat is not easy for someone who has only recently decided to learn more than what is provided on television or in the newspaper. Sumit Ganguly's book presents a thorough history. I have searched several sources both online and in other books and haven't found anything elsewhere that is not in this book. Ganguly offers more than one solution to the problem but it seems that no one is really interested in listening right now.

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Matloub Husayn-Ali-Khan

"New book written from differing theoretical perspective for New Generation of Politicised and Sophisticated Kashmiris!"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2013

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The key argument expanded in this book on the current Crisis in Kashmir since the so called 'insurgency' can only be explained by the many interlocking processes that have come into play within the region from the 1989 period onwards that resulted in the unprecedented political mobilisations and institutional decay. This has also coincided with the national government's increased budgets and spending on literacy, higher education and use of mass media in Jammu and Kashmir. Similarly, this then, set in train a chain reaction process of producing a new generation of young Kashmiris who were more politically knowledgeable and sophisticated than previous generation of Kashmiris. Whilst at the same time, the national Indian state discouraged the development of political institutions due to the fear of the upsurge of the so called 'secessionist movement' in the Vale of Kashmir. Hence, this new generation of young Kashmiris was unable to express dissent within formal institutions in the state which gave rise to this new generation of Kashmiris resorting to violence.

Ganguly's book is well-researched and provides copious amounts of statistical information that underpins his theoretical assumptions - which are also backed up by use of extensive interviews with a cross-section of people from varying fields involved in Kashmir in some way; that includes government officials, military personnel from India, Pakistan and USA, Members of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Kashmiri activists and Journalists.

Interestingly, I found the section on strategies and options for resolving the Crisis in Kashmir from pages (131-147) in the book, very illuminating in that Ganguly lists a total of eight possible options for resolving the issue of Kashmir. Starting with: Ethnic Flooding of Hindus and Sikhs; The Mailed Fist Strategy; The Wear-down Option; Shared Sovereignty; Holding a Plebiscite; Independence; The Protectorate Option and finally an Alternative Strategy that had many variants of the options from 1-7 already listed. Personally speaking, I was aware of most of the options listed by Ganguly in resolving the Kashmir Crisis apart from around 2-3 that I was not familiar with.

Overall, Ganguly cleverly utilises the recurring term in the book: "irredentism" in the context of Pakistan's claims to Kashmir as Pakistan national state policy that advocates the acquisition of some region in another country by reason of common linguistic, cultural, historical, ethnic or racial ties. Whilst at the same time, avoiding the questions on India's claims on the basis and legality of the'Instrument of Accession' of Jammu and Kashmir state on 26th October, 1947.

A well-written and informative book that is written from a differing theoretical perspective!

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