The Gilgit and Baltistan Regions of Jammu and Kashmir State
Title | The Gilgit and Baltistan Regions of Jammu and Kashmir State PDF eBook |
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Pages | 89 |
Release | 2017 |
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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Title | Pakistan Occupied Kashmir PDF eBook |
Author | Virendra Gupta |
Publisher | Manas Publications |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Azad Kashmir |
ISBN | 9788170493150 |
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: The Untold Truth' is a book about the territory of Jammu & Kashmir under Pakistani occupation. The region has been split up into two administrative units: Gilgit-Baltistan and Mirpur-Muzaffarabad, officially termed by Pakistanis as the 'Northern Areas, and 'Azad Kashmir' respectively. The media has constantly focussed on the Kashmir Valley, while the POK has remained neglected. Ignorance about the region borders on apathy. Even the circumstances under which the territory was occupied and the manner in which it was annexed by Pakistan have not been investigated by the scholars in requisite detail. The book traces the circumstances surrounding Pakistan's occupation of the territory, its current legal status, the growing popular discontentment and much more about POK's inside truth. Published in Collaboration with Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
Delusional States
Title | Delusional States PDF eBook |
Author | Nosheen Ali |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2019-09-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108497446 |
Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.
Parvéz Dewân's Jammû, Kashmîr, and Ladâkh: Ladâkh
Title | Parvéz Dewân's Jammû, Kashmîr, and Ladâkh: Ladâkh PDF eBook |
Author | Parvez Dewan |
Publisher | Manas Publications |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Jammu and Kashmir (India) |
ISBN | 9788170492009 |
Parvez Dewan can send you to sleep about Ladakh. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this land, it is he, after years of running about India's northern-most region, administering and adventuring his way around its desert plains, passes and lakes. Along the way, he discovered that Kargil and Leh had large Buddhas carved into the mountainside, noticed that the `world's purest Aryans,' the Drokpas, weren't amused by suggestions that there was mass kissing at their festival and taught himself polo on the endless Kargyak Plains - the highest inhabited place in the world. Parvez started the Ladakh Festival, threw open to tourists seven thitherto `forbidden' areas (but got bounced back from Siachen), developed an admiration for the history, culture and people of the Pak Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan-Hunza region, introduced the Suru Valley and Goshan Murad Bagh to the international media, and waited for weeks to sight the snow leopard. He was luckier with the wild ass, Brahmini ducks and black necked cranes, though.
Gilgit Baltistan
Title | Gilgit Baltistan PDF eBook |
Author | Priyanka Singh (Of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses) |
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Pages | 120 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Gilgit-Baltistān (Pakistan) |
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The Last Colony
Title | The Last Colony PDF eBook |
Author | P. Stobdan |
Publisher | India Research Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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Focusing on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, specifically the Northern Areas and Azad Jammu, this exploration discusses three major impacts on the area’s future development: the 2005 earthquake, the post-9/11 surge in jihad activities, and sectarian violence in Gilgit and Baltistan. The arguments investigate what these three recent occurrences mean to the area’s national security, international presence and reputation, and human rights. The essays feature sample plans, guidelines, and protocols for optimal deployment and expansion of the community-based resources necessary for constructive progression.
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris
Title | Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Snedden |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1849046220 |
In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain's concerns lay elsewhere -- expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China "circling" J&K -- and their agents played the 'Great Game' in Afghanistan and 'Turkistan'. Snedden contextualizes the geo-strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British decision to relinquish prestigious 'Kashmir', and explains how they and four Dogra maharajas consolidated and controlled J&K subsequently. He details what comprised this diverse princely state with distant borders and disunified peoples and explains the Maharaja of J&K's controversial accession to India on 26 October 1947 - and its unintended consequences. Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.