A Mission In Kashmir

Attempts to establish how the Kashmir dispute first erupted have been obscured and impeded by competing nationalisms. Retrieving stories of attackers and survivors, looters and looted, fighters and civilians, Andrew Whitehead sets out to write a full and impartial account of how Kashmir became a theatre of war. He has gathered a remarks range of first-hand testimonies of the most notorious episode in the invasion-the desecration of a convent and mission hospital in the riverside town of Baramulla-including one written by a missionary priest and never consulted before. Apart from making brilliant use of oral history, Andrew Whitehead has uncovered archive documents which challenge both Indian and Pakistani accounts of the genesis of the Kashmir dispute. Also unearthed is a letter from Kashmir's last maharaja, written at the height of the crisis, requesting immediate accession to India. Rigorously researched and immensely readable, this book not only explains how the Kashmir conflict started but also why it has proved so difficult to solve.

ISBN: 0670081272
Author: Whitehead, Andrew
Published by: Penguin Books India
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