79 years resisting occupation and 7 years holding breath

79 years resisting occupation and 7 years holding breath

From 1947, when the subcontinent was partitioned and the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir became the site of competing claims, accession, and war, Kashmiris have resisted the  Indian occupation. The instrument of accession, the subsequent wars, the unfulfilled promise of a plebiscite under UN resolutions, and the progressive erosion of autonomy formed the early chapters. Armed rebellion gathered force from 1988–89 onward; through the 1990s an…