Monographie

Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris / Christopher Snedden

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris / Christopher Snedden
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • London : Hurst, 2013
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XIX-372 p.) : cartes ; 22 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-84904-342-7
  • 1-84904-342-6
EAN
  • 9781849043427 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 954.6
Note(s)
  • Réimpression en 2015
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 331-355. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) — popularly called ‘Kashmir’ — and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain’s concerns lay elsewhere –– expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China ‘circling’ J&K –– and their agents played the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan and ‘Turkistan’. Snedden contextualises the geo-strategic and historical circumstances surrounding the British decision to relinquish prestigious ‘Kashmir’, and explains how they and four Dogra maharajas consolidated and controlled J&K subsequently. He details what comprised this diverse princely state with distant borders and disunified peoples and explains the Maharaja of J&K’s controversial accession to India on 26 October 1947 — and its unintended consequences. Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.
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