Kashmir lies at the edge of India's borders and at the heart of
India's consciousness. It is not geography that is the issue;
Kashmir also guards the frontiers of ideology. If there was a glow
of hope in the deepening shadows of a bitter Partition, then it was
Kashmir, whose people consciously rejected the false patriotism of
fundamentalism and made common cause with secular India instead of
theocratic Pakistan. Kashmir was, as Sheikh Abdullah said and
Jawaharlal Nehru believed, a stabilising force for India. Why has
that harmony disintegrated? Why has the promise been stained by the
blood of rebellion? Placing the mistakes and triumphs of those
early, formative years in the perspective of history, the author
goes on to explain how the 1980's have opened the way for Kashmir's
hitherto marginalised secessionists. Both victory and defeat have
their lessons: to forget either is to destabilise the future.
Kashmir and the mother country are inextricably linked. India
cannot afford to be defeated in her Kashmir.
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