Kashmir's Ordeal Print E-mail
By Lal Khan   

Contents


Acknowledgments
Introduction by Alan Woods

kashmir_ordeal_cover.jpgChapter One - A World in Turmoil


• Humanity in Chains
• Newspeak Economy
• A Threatened Planet
• Unprecedented Instability

Chapter Two - The Great Peace Hoax


• Kashmir - The Nuclear Flash Point
• War, Peace and Poverty
• Destitute Democracy
• The Gathering Strom
• Theocratic Failure
• Whose Peace Is It Anyway?
• The Fragile Irreversibility
• Peace Without Bread

Chapter Three- Ages of Oppression


• Land of Contrasts
• Enter the Mughals
• The Afghan Invasion
• Inviting the Sikhs
• The British and the Dogras: Kashmiris as a Commodity
• History of Class Struggle

Chapter Four - Kashmir and the Trauma of Partition


• Divide and Rule
• The Poonch Revolt
• Degeneration of CPI Leaders
• Problems of Populism
• Intrigues and Treachery
• Insurgency and the First Indo-Pak War
• The Facade of Legality

Chapter Five - Bayonets Dripping Blood


• Democratic Despotism
• Diplomacy, War and Revolution
• The Mirage of Secularism
• The Electoral Debacles
• The Renewed Insurgency
• State Terrorism
• Socio-Economic Devastation
• Criminal Justice
• Repression in Throes of Defeat

Chapter Six - Agony of Azad Kashmir


• Politics of Deception
• Puppet States
• Experiencing ‘Azadi’  (Freedom)
• Problems of Accession
• Class Politics
• Corrupt Power
• The Heroine Connection
• The Ecological Disasters
• Ingredients of Revolt

Chapter Seven - Fundamentalism, Nationalism, and Socialism


• The Epoch
• The Causes of Religious Revivalism
• The Dollar Jihad
• Face Behind the Veil of Piety
• The 9/11 Turn Around
• Crisis of Representation
• The Dilemma of the Nationalists
• Decline of  the Obscurantists
• Capitulation
• Marxist Position on the National Question
• Class and the Nation
• Leninism and Nationalism
• The National struggle and Socialism


Chapter Eight - Socialist Revolution: The Only Solution


• Paralytic Diplomacy
• A Bus Journey to Where?
• Voice of the Oppressed?
• Division of Kashmir
• Independent Kashmir and Imperialist Hegemony
• Wars, Negotiations, and Commerce
• The Permanent Revolution
• Revolutionary Traditions
• The Law of Combined and Uneven Development
• The Socialist Character of the Kashmir Revolution
• The Redicalisation of the Masses
• Paradise on Earth


Post Script - In the Aftermath of the Devastating Earthquake


 
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