Books | State’s Vengeance

Alpa Shah

 

Kashmiris had resisted the feudal regimes that ruled over them for at least a hundred years, so perhaps it was not that surprising that in the years after a rigged election in 1987, mass protests and an armed resistance broke out, by 1990 dubbed by some as the Kashmir ‘intifada’.

Armed insurgents included Kashmiris from both India and Pakistan, and foreign fighters trained in Pakistan. Kashmiri Pandits—a Hindu min…

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