Kashmir as Frontier in Narendra Modi’s Ethno-Nationalist Idea of India

Mangiarotti, Emanuela

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“…As a Muslim-majority borderland at the centre of a conflict between India and Pakistan, and a place of resurgent claims to self-determination in opposition to the central state, Kashmir has occupied a central place in India's nationalist narrative 5 . Kashmir was annexed by India on 27 October 1947, on the basis of an agreement, called the Instrument of Accession, between the then ruler of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir -the Maharaja Hari Singh -and the newly formed government of independent India.…”

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“…Yet, prior to the inception of the first Modi government in 2014 and, chiefly, to the passing of the JKRA in August 2019, New Delhi had not formally questioned the former state's autonomous status within the Union. On the contrary, the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement has always decried J&K's special autonomous status as a barrier to the Kashmiri people's full identification with the Indian nation 7 . The JKRA must be understood in the context of this enduring obsession with the assimilation of Kashmir as a necessary step in the reconstitution of the (Hindu) nation.…”

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Reclaiming the Lost Paradise: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act and India’s New Historical Narrative on Kashmir

Mangiarotti

2023

Il Politico

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Historical narratives and collective memory are relevant to claims regarding community, territory, and identity related to the Kashmir conflict. They have been central in shaping India's national imaginary and mobilizing support for New Delhi's policies in the region. The article analyzes how the topos of "paradise on earth" has informed the trajectories of Indian state narratives on Kashmir transforming, under the Modi government, into a call to action to recover and reclaim the lost paradise. The new discursive direction has been underpinned by a renewed interest in the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits-the Brahmin community native to the Kashmir valley-whose collective identity is deeply rooted in the history and socio-cultural distinctiveness of the region. The article thus situates the renewed political and public interest in the story of the Pandits' flight from Kashmir within a broader narrative of the state underlying the current phase of India's Kashmir policy. In this way, the article provides a perspective on how the trajectory of the Indian government's historical narratives about the region has informed the dynamics of conflict, occupation, and violence in the Kashmir Valley.

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Reclaiming the Lost Paradise: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act and India’s New Historical Narrative on Kashmir

Mangiarotti

2023

Il Politico

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Geopolitics, Conflict and Narratives: An Assessment of Kashmir Conflict after the Abrogation of Article 370

Kumar Aryal,

Muneer

2023

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Kashmir, a triangularly contested region between India, Pakistan and China, is administratively divided between India and Pakistan; it has hitherto sparked three major wars and countless small-scale military actions regarding the contest over the region. On 5 August 2019, the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which conferred a special status on Jammu and Kashmir in the realm of peripheral governance and autonomy, altered the geopolitical and social dynamics of the region. The government has been floating the narrative that the dissolution of this article was a result of numerous inputs, with the consent of Kashmiris and with facilitation from the elected state government, over the years to achieve the objectives of integration, administrative ease and good governance. However, the manner in which the abrogation of Article 370 had been carried out under heavy militarization of the region and imprisonment of all the Kashmiri politicians was far from amicable. Furthermore, in the aftermath of the abrogation, the Kashmir valley has witnessed political instability, human rights violation and alteration of indigenous identity by forced migration and revision of exclusive land rights. The Indian government’s portrayal of abrogation as the biggest success contrast with ground realities of a militarized life in Kashmir. This paper, relying on both the primary and secondary resources including correspondence with Kashmir scholars, aims to assess the contemporary geopolitics of the Kashmir conflict after the abrogation of Article 370 by examining the reasons behind and the impact of this decision on the Kashmiri people. The research concludes that while the abrogation of Article 370 may have temporarily secured India’s hold over the region, it has exacerbated the human rights situation in Kashmir and further tensed the geopolitical tightrope between India, Pakistan, China and other international players.

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Kashmir as Frontier in Narendra Modi’s Ethno-Nationalist Idea of India

Cited by 2 publications

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Reclaiming the Lost Paradise: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act and India’s New Historical Narrative on Kashmir

Reclaiming the Lost Paradise: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act and India’s New Historical Narrative on Kashmir

Geopolitics, Conflict and Narratives: An Assessment of Kashmir Conflict after the Abrogation of Article 370

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