Main description:
Sumantra Bose locates his study on Kashmir within a comparative perspective on problems of self-determination and democratic conflict resolution that enables him to take an engaged but non-partisan view. Both this approach and the reliance on ordinary citizens and grassroots activists rather than on establishment sources, permit him to break away from the nationalist rhetorics of both India and Pakistan. He makes a strong case for an open dialogue between the contending protagonists in the framework of the right for self-determination.
Table of contents:
Introduction
History and the Roots of Conflict
Democracy of Denial
Kashmir in India
The Struggle for `Self-Determination'
Kashmir in the Nineties
Democracy, `Self-Determination' and the Challenge of a Just Peace
Kashmir in Comparative Perspective
Conclusion and Epilogue (April 1996)
Elections, Democracy, `Self-Determination'
A Postscript (Autumn 1996)
Sumantra Bose locates his study on Kashmir within a comparative perspective on problems of self-determination and democratic conflict resolution that enables him to take an engaged but non-partisan view. Both this approach and the reliance on ordinary citizens and grassroots activists rather than on establishment sources, permit him to break away from the nationalist rhetorics of both India and Pakistan. He makes a strong case for an open dialogue between the contending protagonists in the framework of the right for self-determination.
Table of contents:
Introduction
History and the Roots of Conflict
Democracy of Denial
Kashmir in India
The Struggle for `Self-Determination'
Kashmir in the Nineties
Democracy, `Self-Determination' and the Challenge of a Just Peace
Kashmir in Comparative Perspective
Conclusion and Epilogue (April 1996)
Elections, Democracy, `Self-Determination'
A Postscript (Autumn 1996)