Kashmir has been in the news for over a quarter of a Century. hat is special about this State and why and how has the Kashmir Question come to dominate the relations between Indian and Pakistan: these and other allied questions are explained in detail in this revised and enlarged edition.Apart from this, Kashmir has a unique distinction of having the only history written in Sanskrit from the earliest times. Many baffling problem about certain events and their chronology in Indian history, have been solved by it. As such no student of Indian History can afford to ignore its deep study.

This book uses an innovative people-centered approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal wars of partition that mark the South Asian experience. Chapters sensitively bring Kashmiri voices to the fore to examine Kashmir in the national discourses of India and Pakistan, resistance in the Kashmiri imagination and the Kashmir conflict in a global context. The book foregrounds how the space of Kashmir as a cultural, historical and political sphere persists and continues to haunt the postcolonial national present as the people of Kashmir and their cultural, literary and artistic productions cannot be contained within the regnant paradigms of the nations across which the region is partitioned. Additionally, the book explores how long-term resolution would demand engagement with historical forces, political actors and social formations that exceed the nation-state. An important contribution to the study of this troubled region, this book will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern South Asian history and politics as well as comparative politics and international relations.