This much awaited and extensively revised edition of Balraj Puri's best-seller, Kashmir: Towards Insurgency has been released.
The earlier editions of this bestseller are acknowledged by all serious scholars working on Jammu and Kashmir to be the most objectively and comprehensively written work on the subject. This new edition brings the Kashmir story upto date.
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About the Book
After 1947, Muslims of India, acquired a different form, in terms of their role, status, problems, challenges and opportunities. The partition of the country divided them in two and later three parts and led their political, bureaucratic and intellectual elite to migrate to Pakistan. The expert opinion was divided about their very future. W.C. Smith, a renowned scholar of Islam, for instance, believed that Islam in India would emerge as more progressive, dynamic, liberal and creative than Pakistani Islam. The fact that Muslims in India bear the same proportion in Indian Population as those in the world bear to the world population, make their experience of universal value.
Religion has two components. One is set of theological beliefs and practices. Two as a basis of a social identity. Even those who do not follow its beliefs and practices and are agnostics or athiests are an integral part of a religious community.
This book is primarily a study of Muslim community since partition. But some references to pre-partition lessons and Islam, based on its acknowledged authorities, were inevitable for the study of contemporary problems of the community.
This study of micro problems of Indian Muslims is a humble contribution to the vastly grown scholarly work on macro Islam.
J.P. on Jammu and Kashmir/Balraj Puri. New Delhi,
Gyan Pub., 2005, 285 p., $40. ISBN 81-212-0859-9.
Contents: Preface. Introductory.
1. Author's assessment of impact of JP on Kashmir. 2. JP's role in J&K
before independence. 3. JP's policy on Kashmir (1947-1953). 4. Kashmir's first
emotional rupture with the rest of India (1953). 5. Theft of Holy Relic in
Kashmir. 6. Abdullah's release (1964). 7. Post-Nehru Kashmir policy. 8. Indo-Pak
relations. 9. Debate on JP's views on Kashmir. 10. Re-arrest of Abdullah. 11.
After infiltration from Pakistan and war. 12. Era of Indira Gandhi. 13. Delhi
seminar on Kashmir. 14. J&K people's convention. 15. Abdullah's externment.
16. Election in Kashmir. 17. Emergency and after. Index.
"Jayaprakash Narayan commented
through his speeches, statement and writings on Jammu and Kashmir State-more
than any other Indian leader. As conscience keeper of India with an independent
mind and moral courage, he expressed his views on the developments in the state
from pre-independence days to the latest days of his life. He was admired as
well as condemned by the people and leaders of the country but never ignored. He
was the profoundest influence on the Kashmiri mind, after Gandhi and Nehru and
played a major role in reconciliation of Sheikh Abdullah and the people of
Kashmir, after decades of estrangement, with the rest of India.
The book is a collection of whatever he
said or wrote on the crucial state, from all possible sources -- archives,
newspapers, personal records. It throws light on how national interest and moral
principles can be reconciled and how his personality affected the national
policies and events in the state." (jacket)
The Contents
1. Kashmir and the Koshur (G.M.D. Sufi)
2. Origins of the Land and People of Kashmir (P.N.K. Bamzai)
3. Etymology of Kashmir (Fida M. Hassnain)
4. Prehistoric Kashmir: Burzahama and Gufa Kral (M.L. Saqi)
5. The Nilamata Purana (Ved Kumari Ghai)
6. Trika Shastra: Indigenous Philosophy of Kashmir (Prem Nath Bazaz)
7. Buddhism in Kashmir (Ram Nandan Singh)
8. The Vaak-Shruk Temper of Kashmir (P.N. Pushp)
9. History of Sufism in India (Abbas Rizvi)
10. Six Centuries of Islamisation in Kashmir: Retrospect and Prospects (Mohammad Ishaq Khan)
11. Role of Mystics and Sufis in the Propagation of Islam in Kashmir (Mirza G.H. Arif Beg)
12. Kashmir: Islam, Ideology and Society (Peer Giyas Ud-din)
13. Perspectives of Social Change in Kashmiri Women (1900-1947) (Madhavi Yasin)
14. Kashmir Under Alien Rule: 586-1947 (Saif-ud-din Soz)
15. Kashmiriyat: The Mystigue of An Ethnicity (Riyaz Punjabi)
16. 5000 Years of Kashmir (Balraj Puri)
