Kashmir politics and regional stability
Research
On
Kashmir politics and regional stability
Submitted To:
Ehsanul Haque
Professor
Dept. of International Relations
University of Dhaka
Submitted By:
Kaniz Fatema Roll: KM-66
4th Year, 8th Semester Dept. of International Relations University of Dhaka
Chapter 1: Introduction
“The garden-nymphs were brilliant,
Their cheeks shone like lamps;
There were fragmented buds on their stems,
Like dark amulets on the arms of the beloved;
The wakeful, ode-rehearsing nightingales
Whetted the desires of wine-drinkers;
At each fountains the duck dipped his beak
Like golden scissors cutting silk;
There were flower-carpets and fresh rosebuds,
The wind fanned the lamps of the roses,
The violet braided her locks,
The buds tied a knot in the heart.” ---- Emperor Salim Jahangir describing the beauties of Kashmir
“like some supremely beautiful women, whose beauty is almost impersonal and above human desire, such was Kashmir in all its feminine beauty of river and valley and lake and graceful trees and another aspect is a masculine one, of hard mountains and snow-capped peaks and glaciers and cruel and fierce torrents rushing down to the valleys below.” ----- Thus Pandit Nehru describes the beautiful land Kashmir
If the struggle for Kashmir were a struggle for territory, if it were a struggle for national resources or for manpower or strategic position or for any other prizes it might well have been solved years ago. It might no longer be the troublemaker for the whole subcontinent like today it remains. But it is like none of those. Then why is this bitterness, this uncompromisable frustration annoyance? This dispute is something more than the traditional
On
Kashmir politics and regional stability
Submitted To:
Ehsanul Haque
Professor
Dept. of International Relations
University of Dhaka
Submitted By:
Kaniz Fatema Roll: KM-66
4th Year, 8th Semester Dept. of International Relations University of Dhaka
Chapter 1: Introduction
“The garden-nymphs were brilliant,
Their cheeks shone like lamps;
There were fragmented buds on their stems,
Like dark amulets on the arms of the beloved;
The wakeful, ode-rehearsing nightingales
Whetted the desires of wine-drinkers;
At each fountains the duck dipped his beak
Like golden scissors cutting silk;
There were flower-carpets and fresh rosebuds,
The wind fanned the lamps of the roses,
The violet braided her locks,
The buds tied a knot in the heart.” ---- Emperor Salim Jahangir describing the beauties of Kashmir
“like some supremely beautiful women, whose beauty is almost impersonal and above human desire, such was Kashmir in all its feminine beauty of river and valley and lake and graceful trees and another aspect is a masculine one, of hard mountains and snow-capped peaks and glaciers and cruel and fierce torrents rushing down to the valleys below.” ----- Thus Pandit Nehru describes the beautiful land Kashmir
If the struggle for Kashmir were a struggle for territory, if it were a struggle for national resources or for manpower or strategic position or for any other prizes it might well have been solved years ago. It might no longer be the troublemaker for the whole subcontinent like today it remains. But it is like none of those. Then why is this bitterness, this uncompromisable frustration annoyance? This dispute is something more than the traditional