Andrew Whitehead Kashmir dispensed with princely rule two generations and more ago – yet there are plenty of crown princes still at hand. The political order has changed utterly but there’s no shortage of aspirants to power whose status has in large part been inherited. That was brought home to me while reading the new and much talked about book by A.S. Dulat, the former head of the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW). In Kashmir: the Vajpayee years, Dulat asserts that the ‘four likely players for the future in Kashmir…
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