Article 370: India Strips Disputed Kashmir of Special Status
India's government has revoked part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered
Kashmir special status, prompting fears of unrest.
Article 370 is sensitive because it guarantees significant autonomy for the
Muslim-majority state.
The measure was accompanied by a telecoms and media blackout which began on Sunday
evening.
There is a long-running insurgency on the Indian side. India and Pakistan fought
several conflicts over Kashmir.
For many Kashmiris, Article 370 was the main justification for being a part of India
and by revoking it, the BJP has irrevocably changed Delhi's relationship with the
region, the BBC's Geeta Pandey reports from Delhi.
Meanwhile India's parliament is expected to pass a bill splitting Indian-administered
Kashmir into two territories governed directly by Delhi. . . .
But legal cover was still required for military intervention by India, and on October 26
this was duly provided by Menon, with a forged declaration of accession to India by the
Maharajah, supposedly brought back by him from Srinagar, when in fact he was still in
Delhi - a document recently 'discovered', on which the Indian state bases its entire
claim to the Kashmir, but was unable to produce for half a century.--Perry Anderson, "The
Indian Ideology," Verso; Reprint edition (November 5, 2013), page 80
"Dr. Shashi Tharoor stunned Mehdi Hasan," UpFront, August 27, 2017
"India was richest country in the world when ruled by Muslims," September 21, 2017
[List of
regions by past GDP]
[In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by mobs and
paramilitaries led by the army of Dogra ruler Hari Singh.
The exact number of casualties in the killings that continued for two months is not
known but estimates range from 20,000 to 237,000 and nearly half million forced into
displacement across the border into the newly created nation of Pakistan and its
administered part of Kashmir.--Rifat Fareed, "The forgotten massacre that ignited the Kashmir
dispute," aljazeera.com,November 6, 2017]
The Kashmir conflict, explained, Al Jazeera, June 27, 2018
Air Vice-Marshal (Retd.) Kapil Kak, "A Guide to Kashmir Conflict," The Quint, August 13, 2019
[Most experts agree that the sole purpose of this change in the status of Kashmir is
gentrification of the Valley. It would allow Hindu nationalists to buy land in Kashmir
and change the demographics.--S. Amjad Hussain, "Actions in Kashmir should not
be overlooked," toledoblade.com, August 14, 2019]
[after the initial euphoria, even the beleaguered Pandits have come to realise that the
scrapping of the impugned Article has made no difference to their travails--Badri Raina,
"The Failing Art of Selling
Normalcy in Kashmir," thewire.in, October 10, 2019]
[Under Article 371 of the constitution, 10 other states enjoy protections that other states do
not have - a situation the government said was intolerable in the case of Jammu and Kashmir.--Prem
Shankar Jha, "India's
Fate Hangs in the Balance, Only the Supreme Court Can Save Us Now," thewire.in,
October 20, 2019 ]
Srinath Raghavan, "Military Historian Separates Myth From Fact On Article 370," The Wire,
October 22, 2019
[secure access to the five rivers that run through the state of Jammu and Kashmir--Arundhati
Roy, "India: Intimations
of an Ending," thenation.com, November 23, 2019]
AUDIO: "Rana Ayyub on India's Crackdown on
Muslims," The New Yorker, December 2, 2019
Farooq Abdullah Says 'Kashmiris Do Not Feel Indian, Today They'd Rather Have the Chinese Rule Them', NDTV, September 23, 2020
Silenced and shut down: Kashmir's year of lockdown, Al-Jazeera, October 17, 2020
Chief MInister Abdullah still needs to seek the federally appointed lieutenant governor's
approval of major decisions--Leoni Connah, "Vote restores hope to Kashmir but Modi's still in charge," asiatimes.com,
October 12, 2024
Article 370 is sensitive because it guarantees significant autonomy for the
Muslim-majority state.
