02663nam a22002897a 4500 20250628093450.0 250626b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789353454265 AL English 351.1 SABK Mahendra Sabharwal 216428 Kashmir under 370 : A personal history by Jammu and Kashmir former director general of police New Delhi Juggernaut books 2024 250 p. HB 22x14 cm. KSCR-000225 ₹639.00 ₹799.00 ₹ 20% 20-06-2025 Mahendra Sabharwal was the first IPS officer to be directly assigned the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, in 1964. But when he retired in 2001, after serving as chief of the states police, he was not permitted to buy land and settle down there. Sabharwal was seen as an outsider, an interloper, in the state he loved and had served for close to four decades. This book is a sharply observed and astutely analytical personal history of JandK. It is a lament for the years and lives lost, and a critique of the cynical politics that have hamstrung the state. In Kashmir Under 370, we meet a cast of characters the prime ministers, governors, chief ministers and politicians who have controlled Kashmirs fate. We see them through Sabharwals eyes and hear the words and thoughts they expressed behind closed doors. We get an unsparing assessment of key players, with an unusual moral clarity. But more than that we see and get a feel of what it means to be 'boots on the ground. From dodging a mob and containing the fallout of Zulfikar Bhuttos hanging to handling the sieges of Hazratbal and managing the funeral marches of fallen separatists, we get an extraordinary ringside view of politics and policing in JandK. Based on intelligence gathered from captured Pakistani terrorists, he even warned American security officials long before 9/11 about plans to target them but he was ignored.... With the abrogation of Article 370, audacious cross-border retaliation for Pakistan-sponsored terror strikes and Indias economic rise, Sabharwal sees reasons for optimism. The ingredients, he argues, for a more hopeful future have come together for the first time in history. And while much yet needs to be done, a promising start has been made. J&K 216197 Delhi in J&K 216198 politics in J&K 216199 Pakistan in J&K 216200 Terrorism 216201 The police chief years 216202 Mahendra Subharwal was the first IPS officer. 216203 Sabharwal, Manish 216204 ddc BK 234548 234548 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL 2025-06-23 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt Ltd Mangaluru-575001 639.00 1 351.1 SABK 077704 2025-12-11 08:41:33 2025-12-06 799.00 2025-06-20 BK