The Indian Constituent Assembly and the Making of Hindus and Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir

Bibliographic Data

ID3792001
AuthorsMridu Rai (corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue2
Pages205-221
Publication date2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-8374 • E-ISSN: 1477-1500
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03068374.2018.1468659
OpenAlexW2808391972
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Article 370 of the Indian constitution gives the northern province of Jammu and Kashmir special status within the union. Today that provision forms a nucleus of fierce political contention between secularists and religious nationalists in India, despite the manifest whittling down of the article's most significant aspects. This development is counterintuitive: the original intent of the article's introduction had no relation to questions of religion. This essay attempts to understand this unanticipated role, as a marker of the state's secularity or lack thereof, the article has come to play in Indian politics. It contends that the seeds were sown even at the time of shaping the Indian constitution of a perspective that viewed the people of Jammu and Kashmir according to their religious affiliations

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