My Kashmir
Subtitle: conflict and the prospects for enduring peace
By: Wajahat Habibullah.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781601270313
Subjects: Habibullah, Wajahat, -- 1945-; Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Politics and government
Description: "In My Kashmir, Wajahat Habibullah lays out the intricate web of issues at the root of the conflict: ethnicity, religion, national identity, friction between national and local government, and territory. In an account that is equal parts history and memoir, he examines the complicating factors: the Indian government's missteps, the greed of the entrenched Kashmiri middle-class elites, and the religious politics and their all-too-familiar polarizing consequences." "Unlike many others who have written on the subject, Habibullah gives even-handed treatment to both Indian and Pakistani perspectives, though he rightly keeps the Kashmiri people themselves at center stage, for their needs and desires will be pivotal to any real solution. Now, he says, despite the history of bloodshed and betrayals, the possibility for lasting peace is greater than ever before."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.