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JK PANORAMA
VOL-I, ISSUE-1 DECEMBER-2015 | Budgam
Whither Kashmir ?
India wants to retain Kashmir, with people if possible; with the help of force if
necessary. We need to understand the whole issue in a historical perspective
ANALYSIS
G. M. BAWAN
have tried to keep the historical
unconnected and unrelated territories,
perspective in view on the changes that inhabited by sharply contrasting ethnic,
Ihave occurred in the last seven decades in linguistic and cultural identities, by
the subcontinent and on the global level. I unconcerned peoples, into a new state of
also want to clear that we should not be much Jammu and Kashmir, for their own
bothered about individuals; however high aggrandizement and profit, was a rare event
their projection. What matters is the problem that history has seldom witnessed. It was an
confronting us. We know that the speed of extraordinary occurrence of weaving and
technological engine has shaken the concepts unholy political, social and territorial
of politics, economy, sociology and history. ( alliance.”( Kashmir Rediscovered- Page 217)
A prominent intellectual has said that history So it is clear that state of Jammu and Kashmir
has seized to exist- though debatable).
was brain child of the British with ulterior
motives and with an intention to keep the
Walls of nation states are crumbling;
subcontinent burning by manipulation and
territorial boundaries are vanishing and
intrigue. It is a fact of history that Kashmiris
oceans shrinking.
have never ruled their land. A dim glimpse of
emergence of Kashmiri
power emerged in 1947
“Walls of nation states are crumbling; territorial
boundaries are vanishing and oceans shrinking.”
when the Non Kashmiris
areas remained on the other
side of L. O. C. The present
A new trend of ethnic assertion is
emerging as in Crimea and Eastern
Europe. We are confronted with the
mindset of an epoch where identities are
blurred in political, religious and ethnic
mist. Making of the State of J& K The
state of Jammu and Kashmir came into
being on 16 th March 1846 ( treaty of
Amritsar). Dr Abdul Ahad writes- “ The
welding together of a bunch of
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