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KASHMIR

MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976, and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian.

MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993, and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the partys national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi.

His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: Kashmir: Behind the Vale; India The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity; Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan; and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays.

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OTHER TITLES BY MJ AKBAR

Blood Brothers: A Family Saga

Byline

Have Pen, Will Travel: Observations of a Globetrotter

India The Siege Within: Challenges to a Nations Unity

Nehru: The Making of India

The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity

OTHER LOTUS TITLES

Ajit Bhattacharjea	Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: Tragic Hero of Kashmir
Anil Dharker	Icons: Men & Women Who Shaped Todays India
Aitzaz Ahsan	The Indus Saga: The Making of Pakistan
Alam Srinivas & TR Vivek	IPL: The Inside Story
Amarinder Singh	The Last Sunset: The Rise & Fall of the Lahore Durbar
Amjad Ali Khan	My Father Our Fraternity: The Story of Haafiz Ali Khan
B.K. Trehan & Indu Trehan	Retired But Not Tired: Retirement Made Easy
Indira Menon	The Madras Quartet: Women in Karnatak Music
Jaiwant Paul	The Greased Cartridge: The Heroes and Villains of 1857-58
John Lal	Begam Samru: Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame
Lakshmi Vishwanathan Roli Guide	Women of Pride: The Devdasi Heritage
Madan Gopal	My Life and Times: Munshi Premchand
Madhu Trehan	Tehelka as Metaphor
Rachel Dwyer	Yash Chopra: Fifty Years in India Cinema
Ralph Russell	The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of my Moving Pen
Salman Akthar	The Book of Emotions
Sharmishta Gooptu	Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation
Shrabani Basu	Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
S. Hussain Zaidi	Dongri to Dubai
Sunil Raman & Rohit Aggarwal	Delhi Durbar: 1911 The Complete Story
Swapan K. Bandyopadhyay	An Unheard Melody: Annapurna Devi an Authorised Biography
Thomas Weber	Going Native: Gandhis Relationship with Western Women
Thomas Weber	Gandhi at First Sight
Zubin Mehta	Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life

FORTHCOMING TITLE

Shahrayar Khan	Bhopal Connections: Vignettes of Royal Rule
Aruna Roy	The RTI Story: A Peoples Movement for Transparency

KASHMIR

BEHIND THE VALE

M.J. AKBAR

Lotus Collection

M.J. Akbar 2002

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First edition published in 2002

Ninth impression, 2017

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ISBN: 978-81-7436-250-6

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To

Mukulika and Prayaag

CONTENTS

Authors Note

Acknowledgements

Introduction

THE RIPPLES OF FALLING

The Rishi and The Raja

Of Human, and Inhuman, Bondage

Crosscurrent Affairs: A Dream Come True

Bud Shah: Days of Flowers

Delhi Durbar: The End of Independence

The End of Independence

The Politics of Stability

Kabul and Lahore: A Bitter Century

He Who Wishes to Climb

LOVE, POLITICS AND OTHER TRAGEDIES

A Tide, Rising at His Feet

Eloquence and Freedom

Nehru, Abdullah, Jinnah: The Triangle of Hopes

A Basket of Apples

Do Not Disturb

The Will of the People; the Wont of the Powers

COLD BLOOD

Clause 7, Article 370 and a Three-Nation Theory

The Puppets of Allah

An Answer to Their Prayers

Thorns

Select Bibliography

Index

AUTHORS NOTE

Every book lives in its own time and place. To throw I mean that literally another chapter at the end in order to make it artificially up to date works occasionally, but is most often a publishing trick to entice buyers. Neither I, nor my publisher, have any desire to indulge in artifice to push sales. This book is a compact, detailed and I hope engrossing history of Kashmir from Pandit Kalhana and before to 1991. In the decade and more since then, the Jhelum has turned red with blood and that is a related but different story. This book provides the reasons why the most beautiful valley in the world was stained by the mistakes of generations and extracted such a heavy price in young lives. You may recognize the present without the knowledge of the past, but you cannot understand it.

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