The Electorate Restores Kashmiri Identity But Will the ‘Nationalists’ Take Heed?

In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the Partition agreement — namely, demography and contiguity — and join with the new dominion of Pakistan, or whether it would strike a blow for the idealisms that underpinned India (with its vastly Hindu-majority [...]