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Has the regional aspiration of the people of Jammu and Kashmir been addressed through re-organisation of the state? Make an assessment.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Political Aspects

There is no single “regional aspiration” to address. Navnita Chadha Behera has shown that the former state was three political societies inside one boundary — the Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Ladakh — whose demands were mutually contradictory, so any reorganisation had to satisfy one at another's expense. Sumantra Bose adds that treating it as one…

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  • What the reorganisation did
  • Sub-region by sub-region
  • Ladakh — demand met, then instantly replaced
  • Jammu — parity partly delivered, statehood resented
  • The Kashmir Valley — aspiration not addressed
  • The record since
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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