Describe the external and internal disputes responsible for making the politics of
Jammu and Kashmir continuously controversial.
External Dispute
(i) Pakistan’s claim on Kashmir.
(ii) Pakistan has illegally occupied part of Kashmir known as Pak Occupied Kashmir (POK) and calls it Azad Kashmir, which is part of India.
(iii) Training camps for militants in POK and support to militancy within J&K.
Internal Dispute
(i) Status of Kashmir within the Indian Union.
(ii) Special status of J&K under Article.370
(iii) Two views :
(a) People outside J&K believe that Article 370 does not allow full integration of the state with India.
(b) Within J&K people believe that the demand for plebisite has not been fulfilled, special status has been eroded, democracy not properly institutionalized as in the rest of India.
Analyse the circumstances that led to the restoration of Congress system after
the party’s split in 1969.
Describe any three major developments that left a long lasting impact on the
politics of India after the death of Rajiv Gandhi.
