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SUMMARY:The 1947-8 Kashmir conflict as an extension of colonial tribal ins
 urgencies - Elisabeth Leake
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CONTACT:Christian Schlaepfer
DESCRIPTION:In 1947\, shortly after the partition of South Asia\, war erup
 ted between newly independent India and Pakistan over the future of the pr
 incely state of Kashmir. While various factors led the conflict to gain in
 ternational proportions\, with the ultimate intervention of the United Nat
 ions\, the war on the ground began as an incursion by the Pathan tribesmen
  of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier\, an attack reminiscent of tribal ins
 urgencies of the colonial period. The frontier tribesmen had created huge 
 military and financial constraints on the Raj\, necessitating large Britis
 h garrisons throughout the tribal zone\; with the British withdrawal\, the
  tribesmen turned their focus to Kashmir\, instigating raids and attacks r
 edolent of earlier assaults on the British and the settled districts of co
 lonial India. This paper takes a new approach to the Kashmir conflict\, fo
 cusing on the tribesmen’s role in Kashmir as a continuation of colonial 
 tribal unrest. It considers the tribesmen’s local motivations and tactic
 s and their religious ties to Kashmir in the context of colonial British m
 ilitary policy and the transition to a new Pakistani tribal policy. Recogn
 izing the magnitude of this time period for Pakistan\, this paper ultimate
 ly reflects on the tribal incursions in Kashmir as a microcosm of Pakistan
 ’s broader struggles to secure its position within regional and internat
 ional political systems.
LOCATION:Supervision Room O Staircase\, Pembroke College (meet at Porters'
  Lodge at 5.25pm)
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