Kashmir's Secessionist Movement Resurfaces: Ethnic Identity, Community Competition, and the State

Tremblay, Reeta Chowdhari

doi:10.1525/as.2009.49.6.924

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“…With the British exit from India earlier that year, the princely state of Kashmir as well as the 560 other princely states had been advised by the departing colonial power to join either of the two dominions—India or Pakistan. The then Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, hesitating to join India, was forced to request military assistance from India as he was unable to defend Kashmir from the invasion by the tribal raiders (Tremblay, 2009, p. 927). His hesitation was prompted by two factors.…”

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“…National governments at the centre took great care to manipulate the local political scene in J&K in order to push integration of the state with India. The 1952 Jammu agitation and Abdullah’s independent-minded response prompted the Indian state to begin integrating the state of J&K into the Indian federation as a matter of deliberate policy (Tremblay, 2009).…”

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The New Wave of Mobilisation in Kashmir: Religious or Political?

Mohanty

2018

Social Change

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The intractability of the Kashmir conundrum continues despite the success of counter-insurgency operations carried out by the Indian state which can be seen in militancy levels climbing down since the early 2000s. While in part, this is because India and Pakistan are unable to break new ground on Kashmir, a key factor is that alienation still runs deep among Kashmiri people despite duly elected governments being in place. It does not help when their anxieties are further stoked by religio-political mobilisation, such as the Amarnath land agitation in Jammu in 2008, when Hindutva forces enforced a blockade of essential supplies to the Kashmir Valley. A spate of protests have since wracked Kashmir with stone-pelters confronting security persons who use disproportionate violence to quell them. Though each street protest, whether in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 or 2016, had a different trigger, the underlying restlessness and alienation are constants which pose a very real danger of breeding anarchy. This article seeks to explore whether this new wave of mobilisation in Kashmir is religious or political or both in nature, its causal factors and how it is different from the armed insurgency that erupted in 1989. It contends that the state must address and fix such alienation urgently to prevent things going further downhill in the Valley.

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The New Wave of Mobilisation in Kashmir: Religious or Political?

Mohanty

2018

Social Change

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“…In the wake of abrogation of the special status guaranteed by Article 370 and political leadership subject to scrutiny by the Indian government, official nationalism, symbolized, for instance, by celebration of events related to Indian nationhood-Independence Day, Republic Day etc. -became increasingly irrelevant to the majority of Hazarat Bal Mosque' (Tremblay, 1996(Tremblay, -1997 was so complete that 'not even a hawker was to be seen' (Habibullah, 2008: 28 However, in 1987, Farooq was brought back in power in the aftermath of the Farooq-Rajiv Gandhi Accord and accompanied by massive rigging of elections (Tremblay, 2009: 935).…”

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“…The facade that Kashmir cannot be divided fell apart in 2008 when a renewed movement for azadi erupted in the aftermath of the Amarnath land controversy that essentially pitted the valley's Muslim population seeking independence or unification with Pakistan against Jammu's Hindus who support complete integration with India (Tremblay: 2009). This outright confrontation between the state's two main communities sheds light on the delusional fiction of treating the state as a whole.…”

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Roots of insurgency in Indian Jammu and Kashmir- A review

Panwar¹

2016

Int. Jour. of Soci. and Econ. Rese.

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Essay 1: "Uneasy Alliance: SAD-BJP Coalition in Punjab and Economic Development" explores the ironic coalition of Punjab's regional party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, a representative of the state's Sikh population and the Bharatiya Janata Party, a right wing Hindu nationalist party. It explains the electoral compulsions and other incentives which brought the two ideologically divergent parties into a winning coalition. The essay concludes with an evaluation of the coalition's performance with regards to economic development in the state.

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“…Most Kashmiris vote to ensure that their basic necessities for bijli (electricity), pani (water), and sadak (roads) are fulfilled (cf. Tremblay, 2009: 925), although in many instances, in particular during the 1996 elections, people were forcibly dragged out of their homes to vote. In no way, then, as Reeta Tremblay argues, should “electoral participation” be seen an “affirmation of Indian rule in Kashmir” (2009: 925).…”

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Fluid landscapes, sovereign nature: Conservation and counterinsurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Bhan

Trisal

2017

Critique of Anthropology

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This article analyzes how environmentalism reinscribed violent forms of state sovereignty in the disputed region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a decade-long uprising against Indian rule. After the return of an elected government, six years after its suspension in 1990, environmental restoration legitimized new forms of state and nature making in Kashmir. Nature rather than territory emerged as an arena of citizen activism, which further strengthened the state's ability to regulate the use and management of Kashmir's water resources. State and civic bodies deployed discourses of history and restoration to create new and imagined ecologies based on visions of nostalgia, commerce, and esthetics. By undermining place-based understandings of nature and ecology, discourses of environmental stewardship and conservation ended up fostering violent mechanisms of social and political control.

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Kashmir's Secessionist Movement Resurfaces: Ethnic Identity, Community Competition, and the State

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The New Wave of Mobilisation in Kashmir: Religious or Political?

The New Wave of Mobilisation in Kashmir: Religious or Political?

Roots of insurgency in Indian Jammu and Kashmir- A review

Fluid landscapes, sovereign nature: Conservation and counterinsurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir

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