Jammu & Kashmir: India's Objectives and Strategies

Chandran, D. Suba

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Title

Jammu & Kashmir: India's Objectives and Strategies

Author(s)

Chandran, D. Suba

Issue Date

2008

Keyword(s)

• Jammu and Kashmir -- Conflict
• Jammu and Kashmir -- India -- Policy

Abstract

What are the major issues in India’s policies and strategies vis-à-vis the conflict in Kashmir (between New Delhi and the various communities in the Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh regions) and the conflict of Kashmir (between India and Pakistan)? Though India’s policies towards both these conflicts have been criticized as ad hoc and reactive, in retrospect it appears New Delhi has been clear on what it wants regarding both conflicts. Externally with Pakistan, New Delhi wants to convert the Line of Control into an international border and make the status quo permanent. Internally, it wants to keep the demands for independence under control, aiming to win the Kashmiris psychologically and emotionally by integrating the political elite into the mainstream. The strategies that New Delhi has adopted to secure these policies may have different guises, but the policies on these two broader issues have remained constant. In this article, these policies and the strategies adopted to secure them are critiqued before commenting on the contemporary situation and making conclusions about the road ahead.

Publisher

Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Swords and Ploughshares, winter 2007-8

ISSN

1046-7734

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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