The Politics of State Autonomy in Jammu & Kashmir

About the Book Kashmir is now known more for its so called Kashmir Issue or the Kashmir conflict than it was for its natural blessings. More specific to say it is now being called as the wounded paradise". Since some three decades time the Kashmir issue had ultimately sought a prime place in the top debates. Conflict over Kashmir has reached a feature of an international landscape evidently increasing with every passage of time. The conflict has a compass of full panoply of same issues and tenderness in the same had ultimately increased. This resulted in increasing difficulty to write down on the same. During the last three decades of high tenderness no doubt a lot of work had been composed regarding the same but the present book would hopefully work within a de-jure & de-facto applied political arena to make the issue fully understood along with nabbing of a real grit in solving the same.

Within the dynamic character of the issue and its importance, every writer had predicted the same within their own perspectives and ideologies. But the fact is that the dominant view over all is the issue of Autonomy, which was within the legal documentation of the treaty of Amritsar when for the first time it was introduced to the state in 1846. It was a time when almost the all subcontinent was totally unexposed to the concept. Infact the autonomy and the All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (which had been much identical with the same along with its issue since the Naya Kashmir Programmed in 1944) had been witnessed side by side on the road of the Kashmir politics since the said times. The issue got more importance since the concept of Autonomy erosion was thought as mainly responsible for the unrest in the valley. Infact the recent political history had framed its picture within the perspective of 'politics of Autonomy'. Therefore only party that had monopoly hold over the Kashmir politics and most identical with the same issue is the National Conference. This is the reason that the concept of autonomy to the state of Jammu and Kashmir had sought the importance of jugular vein to the politics of National Conference, Politics of the State and aspirations of the Kashmiri people as well. It was opined that the special status which was guaranteed under the Article 370 was the fundamental base and arena on which the sate acceded with Indian dominion.

About the Author Dr Feroze Ahmad Wani, born in March 1978 at village Awanpora, Awantipura, Kashmir. After getting basic education from various institutions within the locality, he qualified his Graduation in Arts from the Govt. Degree College Boys Anantnag. Qualifying the Post Graduate degree in Political Science from the University of Kashmir Srinagar, the Author was awarded Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Rajasthan (Jaipur). The Author joined as teacher in elementary school and is presently continuing with the same. Dr Feroze has many publications in journals and magazines at state & national levels. The less job-orientation, tense and tender conditions from just the nineties, the democratic administration, innocent blood-bath, malpractice of favorable exercise of law and orders dug a deep effect over the mind as well as the personality of the Author which exploded an eager and immense need to go through the knowing of very basic causes for the Kashmir Problem along with its best possible and Justifying solutions.

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