Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…

On August 5, 2019, the quasi-autonomy of Indian administered Kashmir was removed militarily without consulting the Kashmiri legislature or the people. This move was as illegal (Parthasathy 2019) and deemed…

Historically, the region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan was governed through “microstates” and tribal councils in different valley domains. For centuries…

A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…

Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…

What happens when the state of…

On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Union Government of India unilaterally revoked…

On August 5, 2019, the Parliament of India unilaterally rescinded Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granting relative autonomy to the state…

The removal of Article 370 also stripped away Article 35A, that recognized the permanent residents (“state subjects”)…

Last year, after the AAA meeting in Vancouver…

One of the most significant historic transformations in the modern era of state and nation building is currently playing out through modalities of border warfare, permanent emergency and counterinsurgency in Kashmir, producing…