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Anatomy of a Conflict | Books

Though published before the Pulwama attack, the book examines the roots of the Valley's current crisis.

There are two critical dimensions to the conflict in Kashmir. At one level, it has been, and remains, a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. At another, it has involved New Delhi's fraught federal relationship with the state. Since the emergence of the two countries in 1947, these two currents have intersected periodically, with rather infelicitous consequences. Pakistan, unreconciled to the status quo in Kashmir, has,

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