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Mar 2025
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Why Have We Forgotten Kashmir? With Dr M...

MUHAMMAD JALAL
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Books on Kashmir

Victoria Schofield - Kashmir in Conflict

Victoria Schofield - The History of Kashmir


Alastair Lamb - The Birth of a Tragedy

Alastair Lamb - A Disputed Legacy


Christopher Snedden - The Unwritten History of Kashmir


Khalid Bashir - Kashmir: Exposing the Myths Behind the Narrative


Shah Nalik Haider Chadura - Tarikh-e-Kashmir


Mridu Rai - Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir


Assorted Authors - Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?


Sanjay Kak - Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir


It was the great Mughal emperor Jahanghir who said about Kashmir, Gar firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin ast - If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.

For 76 years, this beautiful land and its wonderful people have been under Indian occupation. In 1947, upon partition, the original settlement between the principalities and the Indian government was to create an autonomous region, where the vastly Muslim population would govern themselves under Indian sovereignty. Over the successive decades and governments, this agreement has been eroded and today Kashmir is one of the most heavily militarised places in the world.

Yet we do not talk enough about Kashmir and the plight of its Muslims. To set the record straight I am honoured to have on the show Dr Muzammil Thakkur who is the President of World Kashmir Freedom Movement.


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