Kashmiri Separatists Origins, Competing Ideologies and Prospects for Resolution of the Conflict

The recent military stand-off and threatened nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan have lately focused congressional attention on the longstanding territorial dispute over the former princely state of Kashmir. This book focuses exclusively on the uprising in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, which has been disputed since both countries became independent in 1947. By many accounts the uprising began when anger over an alleged rigged election in 1987 became a militant insurgency by 1989. Examining both the Indian and Pakistani strategies and perspectives in Kashmir, this book outlines the various parties to the conflict, including descriptions of the main militant groups active in Kashmir and provides an analysis of three possible settlements that policy makers have recently proposed for the region.Leather, Kaia is the author of 'Kashmiri Separatists Origins, Competing Ideologies and Prospects for Resolution of the Conflict' with ISBN 9781590336342 and ISBN 1590336348.