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August 5, 2019
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Article 370: India Strips Disputed Kashmir of Special Status

India's government has revoked part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status, prompting fears of unrest.

Article 370 is sensitive because it guarantees significant autonomy for the Muslim-majority state.

The measure was accompanied by a telecoms and media blackout which began on Sunday evening.

There is a long-running insurgency on the Indian side. India and Pakistan fought several conflicts over Kashmir.

For many Kashmiris, Article 370 was the main justification for being a part of India and by revoking it, the BJP has irrevocably changed Delhi's relationship with the region, the BBC's Geeta Pandey reports from Delhi.

Meanwhile India's parliament is expected to pass a bill splitting Indian-administered Kashmir into two territories governed directly by Delhi. . . .

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But legal cover was still required for military intervention by India, and on October 26 this was duly provided by Menon, with a forged declaration of accession to India by the Maharajah, supposedly brought back by him from Srinagar, when in fact he was still in Delhi - a document recently 'discovered', on which the Indian state bases its entire claim to the Kashmir, but was unable to produce for half a century.--Perry Anderson, "The Indian Ideology," Verso; Reprint edition (November 5, 2013), page 80

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