Below are some books in chronological order during the decades following from August 1947 when India and Pakistan were created. The are from different historical and political vantages and show the enduring struggle in Kashmir and how it has been represented. Above are pictures from a protest organised on 15 August 2019 outside the Indian High Commission in London following the Government of India’s decision to revoke Article 370.
Michael Brecher, The Struggle for Kashmir, Ryerson Press, 1953.
Prem Nath Bazaz, The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir: Cultural and Political, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Kashmir Publishing Company, 1954.
Josef Korbel, Danger in Kashmir, Princeton University Press, 1954.
Christopher Birdwood, Two Nations and Kashmir, Robert Hale, 1956.
Aziz Beg, Captive Kashmir, Allied Business, 1957.
Sisir Gupta, Kashmir: Study in India-Pakistan Relations, ICWA, 1966.
Alastair Lamb, The Crisis in Kashmir 1947–1966, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.
Muhammad Yusuf Saraf, Kashmiris’ fight for freedom, Vol. 1 (1819–1946) and Vol. II (1947–1978), Feroze Sons (1977, 1979).
Prem Nath Bazaz, Democracy through intimidation and terror, Delhi: Heritage, 1978.
Sheikh Abdullah and M.Y. Taing, Atish-e-Chinar, Srinagar Shaukat, 1985.
S.T. Hussain, Sheikh Abdullah-a biography (based on Atish-e-Chinar) Wordclay, 2009.
B.C. Taseer, The Kashmir of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Lahore: Feroze Sons, 1986.
U.K. Zutshi, Emergence of political awakening in Kashmir, Manohar Publications, 1986.
Alastair Lamb, Kashmir: A Disputed Legacy 1846-1990, Roxford, 1991.
Robert G. Wirsing. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution, New York: St. Martin’s. 1994.
Victoria Schofield, Kashmir in the Crossfire, Bloomsbury, 1996.
Iffat Malik, Kashmir: Ethnic Conflict International Dispute, OUP 2002.
Mridu Rai, Hindu Rulers: Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir, Princeton University Press, 2004.
Chitralekha Zutshi, Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir, Hurst, 2004.
Praveen Swami, India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004, Routledge, 2006.
Andrew Whitehead, A Mission in Kashmir, Penguin, 2007.
Sanjay Kak, ed. Until my Freedom has Come, Penguin, 2011.
A.G. Noorani, Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir, The Kashmir dispute: 1947–2012, OUP, 2011.
Christopher Snedden, The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir. Hurst, 2012.
Shonaleeka Kaul, The Making of Early Kashmir, OUP, 2018.
Duschinski, Bhan, Zia and Mahmood, eds. Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
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