Jammu & Kashmir

D.P. Srivastava, Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control. Noida, Harper Collins, 2021. 439pp.

Whereas Kashmir has been the focus of national and international attention for over seven decades, Pak-occupied Kashmir (POK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) have eluded attention. This is because the ‘Other Kashmir’ across the LOC has been kept under...

December 2, 2021

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, POK, UN resolutions, Jammu & Kashmir

K File:The Conspiracy of Silence By Bashir Assad (New Delhi, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019. 237pp)

Prof K Warikoo

Bashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has firsthand experience of the developments in Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi...

April 20, 2020

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Ahl-e-Hadis, Bashir Assad, Islamisation, Jamat-e-Islami, Kashmir, Kashmiri Muslims, Kashmiris, Maududi Islam, Nizam-e-Mustafa, Jammu & Kashmir

Kashmir: Beyond Article 370. By Bashir Assad. New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2020. 177 pp. Rs. 595/-

Prof K Warikoo

Bashir Assad, the Kashmiri writer has come out with yet another interesting and insightful study of Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. To quote Bashir, he has brought out the “bitter truth following his inner voice” underscoring the...

March 18, 2020

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Article 370, Bashir Assad, Kashmir, Kashmir: Beyond Article 370, Kashmiri Muslims, Jammu & Kashmir

Cultural Heritage of Jammu and Kashmir, Edited by K. Warikoo, Pentagon Press, 2009, Pages: 338, Price: Rs. 1750, ISBN: 978-81-8274-376-2

Prateek Joshi

Much has been written about Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by the virtue of its disputed status. The ever growing literature by leading scholars and legal experts has continued to emphasize either on the legal aspect of the Kashmir dispute or has...

September 12, 2018

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Buddhist, Cultural Heritage, Islamic influences, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Socio-cultural, Jammu & Kashmir

Kashmir: The Unwritten History; Christopher Snedden; Harper Collins; PP 434; Rs 599

Sushant Sareen

Book Review - An Underhand Pitch for Plebiscite

Over the last few months, there is suddenly a lot of unnecessary, unwarranted and self-serving focus of Western academics, analysts and authors on the India-Pakistan equation – the issue of Jammu and Kashmir inevitably being a centre-piece of the...

July 24, 2013

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Azad Kashmir, Kashmir, Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir