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100			_aMahendra Sabharwal _9216428
245			_aKashmir under 370 _b: A personal history by Jammu and Kashmir former director general of police
260			_aNew Delhi _bJuggernaut books _c2024
300			_a250 p. _bHB _c22x14 cm.
365			_aKSCR-000225 _b₹639.00 _c₹799.00 _d₹ _e20% _f20-06-2025
520			_aMahendra Sabharwal was the first IPS officer to be directly assigned the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, in 1964. But when he retired in 2001, after serving as chief of the states police, he was not permitted to buy land and settle down there. Sabharwal was seen as an outsider, an interloper, in the state he loved and had served for close to four decades. This book is a sharply observed and astutely analytical personal history of JandK. It is a lament for the years and lives lost, and a critique of the cynical politics that have hamstrung the state. In Kashmir Under 370, we meet a cast of characters the prime ministers, governors, chief ministers and politicians who have controlled Kashmirs fate. We see them through Sabharwals eyes and hear the words and thoughts they expressed behind closed doors. We get an unsparing assessment of key players, with an unusual moral clarity. But more than that we see and get a feel of what it means to be 'boots on the ground. From dodging a mob and containing the fallout of Zulfikar Bhuttos hanging to handling the sieges of Hazratbal and managing the funeral marches of fallen separatists, we get an extraordinary ringside view of politics and policing in JandK. Based on intelligence gathered from captured Pakistani terrorists, he even warned American security officials long before 9/11 about plans to target them but he was ignored.... With the abrogation of Article 370, audacious cross-border retaliation for Pakistan-sponsored terror strikes and Indias economic rise, Sabharwal sees reasons for optimism. The ingredients, he argues, for a more hopeful future have come together for the first time in history. And while much yet needs to be done, a promising start has been made.
650			_aJ&K _9216197
650			_aDelhi in J&K _9216198
650			_apolitics in J&K _9216199
650			_aPakistan in J&K _9216200
650			_aTerrorism _9216201
650			_aThe police chief years _9216202
650			_aMahendra Subharwal was the first IPS officer. _9216203
700			_aSabharwal, Manish _9216204
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