{"id":30198,"date":"2018-10-26T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30198"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:08:15","slug":"tragedy-of-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tragedy-of-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy of errors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/tragedy-of-errors\/article23419666.ece\"><strong>Tragedy of errors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kashmir is not one but two problems. There is the problem of Kashmir between India and Pakistan and the problem in Kashmir between the people and the Central government<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basis of the problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first is based on Pakistan\u2019s challenge to the legality of the State\u2019s accession to India<\/li>\n<li>The second on the disaffection of the State\u2019s population that has created a problem of legitimacy for the Indian Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Major blow to Indian legitimacy in Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Abdullah\u2019s removal from power and imprisonment in 1953, on the suspicion that he was conspiring with the Americans to create an independent State, was a major blow to the legitimacy of Indian rule in Kashmir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeline of events<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Indira-Sheikh agreement of 1975<\/strong> meant a new beginning by reaching a compromise on the autonomy issue and bringing Abdullah back to power. Free and fair elections held in 1977 confirmed this outcome<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death of Sheikh Abdullah<\/strong>: Unfortunately, after Abdullah\u2019s death in 1982, the Centre, and especially Rajiv Gandhi, actively destabilised Kashmir by forcing Farooq Abdullah, who had succeeded his father, to relinquish power. It then coerced the National Conference into an alliance with Congress, thus drastically eroding the legitimacy of the National Conference, the moderate face of Kashmiri sub-nationalism, in Kashmiris\u2019 eyes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rigged elections<\/strong>: The openly rigged 1987 election was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. Undertaken to diminish the anticipated electoral performance of the opposition Muslim United Front (MUF), it had the opposite effect by forcing many disgruntled supporters of the MUF first to take to the streets and then, from 1990 onwards, to take up arms<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attack by Pakistan<\/strong>: Pakistan, unsurprisingly, meddled in troubled waters by infiltrating ISI-trained terrorists into the Valley and by training Kashmiri militants to attack Indian forces. This mayhem further strained the Kashmiris\u2019 relations with the Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy of errors Context Kashmir is not one but two problems. There is the problem of Kashmir between India and Pakistan and the problem in Kashmir between the people and the Central government Basis of the problems The first is based on Pakistan\u2019s challenge to the legality of the State\u2019s accession to India The second&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tragedy-of-errors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tragedy of errors\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914094},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}