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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Thursday that his government's decision to strip autonomy from the part of Kashmir it controls would be a significant development in the region. Ashok Malik , a Distinguished Fellow at Delhi's Observer Research Foundation, argues that a hardening of views about India has created in Kashmir, a climate, where such a step was possible.

In July 2016, the Kashmir Valley erupted following The Killing of a militant leader Burhan Wani in an anti-insurgent operation.

Wani, and the violence, the unrest in The Aftermath of his death, a new phase in the Kashmir, and the cries for azaadi (freedom) were overwhelmed by calls for jihad. This was the call for an independent Kashmir or merger with Pakistan; it was a call for a Caliphate. The slogans, videos, and pictures of the Islamic State group and similar organizations exert major influence to Many Young Men of Kashmir.

The events of 2016 had another blow - they brought the ferocity and trenchant rhetoric of Kashmiri separatism in The Heart of the demonstrations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi of left-wing groups in the universities, in the media debates and public platforms in India .

Historically, the issue of Kashmir had not, was an Indian Muslim dispute. The Kashmiri Muslims as different from all (other) Indians, whether Muslim or Hindu.

In recent years, The Number of young cashmere study of Muslims and work in the rest of India has greatly increased. Kashmiri Muslims are part of the campus policy, the elections to student offices in the renowned national educational institutions such as the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Aligarh Muslim University, for example. You can find the work in distant Kerala and Goa. Even so, the osmosis has proved to be a mixed blessing.

clashes, according to popular militant commander Burhan Wani was started by the security forces killed in 2016

The Indian government is perhaps hoping that this young Kashmiris to introduce the diversity and the economic opportunities of India and give them a greater sense of Association with the Land.

While that has to some degree happened, it has also allowed separatist ideas, the causes of the radical left, as well as a small but vulnerable section of young Indian Muslims. After 2016, the thread of these different groups, a hostility was bound to Mr modi and the Indian State - in your imagination, which is now side by side as a.

In Public Opinion in the rest of India , this led to a counter-reaction.

It was not only because of Mr. modes demonized was - although the Prime Minister reduce the personal popularity and it would be too simple to be this complex phenomenon to a single.

It occurred because the public impatience with Kashmiri politicians, with Kashmiri "victim role", with Kashmiri secessionist tendencies, had, with violent street protests in Kashmir-and Kashmir-related terrorism, reached a historic peak.

It was not sufficiently appreciated is that Kashmir is a Conflict Zone (and by extension, Pakistan) is no longer a discourse limited to Northern India , but she is busy with the whole Country .

celebrated by Many Indians, the withdrawal of article 370

There are two reasons for this:

these Two factors have in Kashmir is a heartfelt, all-India output of unusual intensity. Anecdotal and Empirical Evidence confirmed this.

In February 2019, Shortly thereafter, he was captured by the Pakistani military.

1. In March, he was released and crossed over to India . His dismissal, this author was given to me by a senior journalist from Kerala had in the very South of India under the highest TV ratings for the Two Weeks in The State , trumping even soap Operas.

The provided grim proof.

It took place in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley , Two Weeks before the Abhinandan Varthaman a row and saw The Killing of 40 militants of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force. Between them, these men came from 16 Indian States. Your body went apart after home, of tears and emotional funerals in places as far as Northern Uttar Pradesh , North-Eastern Assam and southern Karnataka.

Slowly, sedulously, the hardened and was placed in the mood on Kashmir, a pan-Indian footprint.

An obvious result was and is a frustration with the Status Quo in Kashmir, and a weariness of what is seen as the familiar cycle of sacrifice and violence, blackmail and bluster. Politically, the ground was fertile for a break from The Past and for a new initiative, however, daring may be.

courtesy of: Observer Research Foundation

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