KASHMIR IN CONFLICT
India, Pakistan and the Unending War
Victoria Schofield
Viva Books
318 pages; Rs 695
In Kashmir in Conflict, Victoria Schofield, a British writer specialising in South Asia, begins by focusing on the tense weeks preceding and following India’s independence, and goes on to discuss Maharaja Hari Singh’s accession following the tribal invasion from Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, its gradual integration with India, the growing alienation of Kashmiris and the militancy that has scarred the state since 1989.
She offers valuable insights by quoting from the memoirs, biographies and correspondence of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Lord Mountbatten, Maharaja Hari Singh,
