Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes on the authors -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: A brief history of the Kashmir conflict and Indo-Pakistani relations -- 2. Introduction: Tracing the conflict's genesis and dynamics in a tailored manner -- 3. Kashmir before and after partition -- 3.1. The artificially stitched political entity -- 3.2. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: a deified Lion of Kashmir -- 3.3. The accession to India and the question of plebiscite -- 4. India-Pakistan relations in the formative decades -- 4.1. Partition of the subcontinent and the first Kashmir war -- 4.2. The 1960s: Pakistan's revisionism in Kashmir -- 5. Fateful transformations of the 1970s and 1980s -- 5.1. The disintegration of Pakistan -- 5.2. The war in Afghanistan and the Kashmir issue -- 6. The turbulent 1990s: Insurgency and the bomb -- 6.1. The insurgency in IaJK -- 6.2. Nuclear neighbours -- 7. Kashmir imbroglio and Indo-Pakistani relations in the 21st century -- 7.1. The new post-9/11 dynamics -- 7.2. 2010-2020: The decade of lost hope -- 7.3. India-Pakistan-Kashmir: Grim prospects -- PART II: The role of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan's domestic and international policies -- 8. Conceptualising the centrality of Kashmir in Pakistan's narrative -- 9. Nation building and Kashmir -- 9.1. The inception of an ideological state -- 9.2. The army has the state -- 9.3. Pakistan's stance on Kashmir-Key components -- 9.4. Persistent quest for Kashmir -- 9.5. Sociopolitical effects of radicalisation -- 9.6. Mainstream political parties and Kashmir -- 9.7. Selective approach to human rights -- 10. Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan's policy -- 10.1. AJK as geostrategic and political construct -- 10.2. Vanishing heritage and migration.

10.3. AJK and the proxy war in Kashmir -- 10.4. Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan's policy -- 10.5. Sectarian challenges -- 10.6. China in Gilgit-Baltistan -- 11. Kashmir dispute in the international policy of Pakistan -- 11.1. The accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India -- 11.2. The centrality of Kashmir issue -- 11.3. Internationalisation and plebiscite -- 11.4. Constructing India as the 'arch-enemy' -- 11.5. Strategic alliances with powerful actors -- 12. Reframing Pakistan's domestic and international objectives -- PART III: The role of Jammu and Kashmir in India's internal and international policies -- 13. India's values focussed on Jammu and Kashmir -- 13.1. The illusion of free choice -- 13.2. A policy of faits accomplis -- 13.3. The twelve pillars of India's stance vis-�a-vis Kashmir -- 13.4. The territorial integrity of India and other core values -- 13.5. Affective factors and correlates of territorial integrity -- 14. Creations within creations and their fears -- 14.1. Artificial creations in South Asia: India and Pakistan -- 14.2. Jammu and Kashmir as an artificial creation -- 14.3. Threats to the territorial integrity of India -- 14.4. The impact of Pakistan and the Cold War -- 15. The spectre and structure of conflict -- 15.1. Why else should Jammu and Kashmir matter? -- 15.2. The spectre of Islamisation, Jihādism and terrorism -- 15.3. The causal structure of the so-called ethnic and religious conflicts -- 15.4. Causal ramifications behind the Kashmir conflict -- 16. Transforming identities and ideologies -- 16.1. The Kashmīrīyat construct and Kashmiri nationalisms -- 16.2. A tilt towards religion and its political underpinnings -- 16.3. A transformation of the Kashmiri identity and its constructs -- 16.4. The demographic threat to India's security and the sexual Jihād -- 16.5. The wreckage of secularism as foundation.

17. Military tagil wagging the State -- 17.1. The flirtation of the Indian brass with saffron nationalism -- 17.2. India and Pakistan: Toxic structures of military rule -- 17.3. The saffronisation of the Indian Armed Forces -- 18. The harder the pressure, the looser the bond -- 18.1. Public trust in power versus public perception of Kashmir -- 18.2. Kashmir's symbolic dimension -- 18.3. The hardened spirit of bilateralism -- 18.4. Kashmir through the nuclear magnifying glass -- 18.5. A new incarnation of the Kashmiri rebellion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

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