Divya Arya - Postbox Kashmir: Two lives in letters

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Andrew Whitehead, A Mission in Kashmir (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2007), 108121.

M.J. Akbar, Kashmir: Behind the Vale (New Delhi: Roli Books, 2002), 112-113.

Jammu and Kashmir had its own prime minister and Sadr-e-Riyasat (Head of State) until 1965, when the J & K Constitution was amended (Constitution of J & K (Sixth Amendment) Act, 1965) by then Congress government, which replaced the two positions with chief minister and governor respectively.

Ajit Bhattacharjea, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: Tragic Hero of Kashmir (New Delhi: Roli Books, 2008), x-xii.

The website of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh says, Expressed in the simplest terms, the ideal of the Sangh is to carry the nation to the pinnacle of glory, through organizing the entire society and ensuring protection of Hindu Dharma. Critics say the organization is a sectarian, militant group, which believes in the supremacy of Hindus and preaches hate against Muslims and Christian minorities.

Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the Worlds Largest Democracy (London: Pan Macmillan, 2007), 244253.

Yasin Malik headed the militant group Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front till 1994, when he publicly gave up their armed campaign and declared that their struggle for Kashmirs independence will now be non-violent.

Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy (New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2009), 171174.

Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid, Natasha Rather, Do you remember Kunan-Poshpora? (New Delhi: Zubaan, 2016), 28.

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The former states poverty rate was found half of the countrys average in Reserve Bank of Indias 2012 report based on the Tendulkar Poverty line. For more: Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen, An UncertainGlory: India and Its Contradictions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), Table A.3 in the Statistical Appendix.

542 out of the 543 constituencies went to poll in the 2019 General Election. Polling was cancelled in Vellore constituency because of electoral malpractice, after millions of rupees in cash were unearthed in an income tax raid from a candidates house.

Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night (Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009), 2427.

During the 2014 elections campaign, Narendra Modi had said in reference to Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadavs criticism that Modi cannot make another Gujarat out of Uttar Pradesh, Do you know it requires a 56-inch chest to make it. The 56-inch chest has since then been used to refer to Modis leadership style.

Fidayeen Jihadis is a term used in India to refer to Islamic militants who are ready to sacrifice their life for the cause of Jihad, commonly understood to imply that they become suicide bombers.

According to the Annual Report 2019-20 (accessed on 17 June 2021), there was a fall in the number of terrorists killed (157) and in the infiltration attempts (138) into the region in 2019.

The website of Vishva Hindu Parishad states its objective as: The objective of the VHP is to organizeconsolidate the Hindu society and to serveprotect the Hindu Dharma. Critics call it a hard-line Hindu nationalist outfit, which is led by the ideologies of its parent organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, that believes in the supremacy of Hindus and aims for a nation purged of non-Hindus.

Christophe Jaffrelot, Ayodhya, the Babri Masjid and the Ramjanmabhoomi Dispute, in Hindu Nationalism: A Reader, ed. Christophe Jaffrelot (Ranikhet, Permanent Black, 2009). 281-282.

There is a risk of unpredictable violence, including bombings, grenade attacks, shootings and kidnapping says fresh advisory, @UKinIndia @HCI_London @MEAIndia @PIBHomeAffairs, Twitter photo, 3 August 2019, https://twitter.com/Smita_Sharma/status/1157597122251784192

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