Something sinister was brewing in Kashmir over the previous week. India suddenly pushed in thousands of paramilitary forces to add to the already present half a million soldiers that tightly control Kashmiri lives in the region. These forces were deployed in strength in major towns and cities, blocking entry and exit points.
There were rumours that the Indian military might sweep the entire region and eliminate Kashmiri resistance figures and activists. For a moment, a rumour spread that the pre-eminent pro-independence Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, who has been combating severe illness in an Indian jail had died, which it appears wasn’t true.
Since Kashmir had a Muslim-majority population who would have preferred independence or accession with Muslim-majority Pakistan, Indian leaders sought to legitimise the Hindu ruler’s arbitrary decision by a constitutional negotiation that would give Kashmir a degree of “special” status within the Indian Union.
Fast forward to the 80s and the 90s and the Hindu right, built upon notions of Hindu supremacism and territorial nationalism, grew country-wide and formed its first national government. The Hindu rightwing saw this as a final blow to any semblance of Kashmiri Muslims being protected from the majoritarian Indian state. To achieve this, even loyalist Kashmiri politicians were to be sidelined and kept at bay. Many pro-independence activists had already been either eliminated or put in jail.
While some Ladakhis have long demanded Union Territory status, it has finally come, but it has also taken away their democratic rights of representation.
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New Delhi revoked India-administered Kashmir’s partial autonomy in 2019 and has since changed laws in a bid to alter demographics. From stifling media to allowing more non-locals to run civil and police departments, we take a look
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