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    Zaboor Ahmad

    Ahmad Zaboor is pursuing Ph.D. from the University of Kashmir and teaches political science. He is a contributing author to the forthcoming book Modern South Asian Thinkers. He can be reached at ahmadzaboor@gmail.com.

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  • Book Review: Inside the Tablighi Jammat0

    • Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
    • September 2, 2020

      Author: Ziya Us Salam     Publisher: HarperCollins India Year of publication: 2020, Pages:260    Paperback  $ 12.73   ₹ 399.00   In an Islamophobic age, it is increasingly becoming dangerous to be a Muslim, more so if one lives in an authoritarian regime and belongs to the minority community as well.  The exactly the same thing

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  • Book review – Pieces of earth: The Politics of land grabbing in Kashmir0

    • Commentary, Reviews
    • August 20, 2020

    BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Author: Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail pp194 Print publication date: 2018 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2018 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199477616.001.0001 Over the years, few scholars in Kashmir and those writing outside India have moved away from the structural side of the Kashmir conflict and have argued that Indian rule in Kashmir is nothing less than

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  • Book Review: Conflict Management in Kashmir; State-People Relations and Peace0

    • Commentary, Reviews
    • August 12, 2020

      Author Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp 175  ISBN-13: 978-1108423892  ISBN-10: 9781108423892 by Ahmad Zaboor  12 August 2020 Mahapatra’s book is an autopsy of the intersections of political violence, deprivation, and conflict with special reference to Kashmir. It examines the vertical aspect of the conflict, in which the Indian State and a section of

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  • Book Review; The secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism0

    • Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019, Reviews
    • May 20, 2019

    by Zaboor Ahmad 20 May 2019 India and Turkey are the two leading examples of secular states in the non-secular world. Both are constitutionally secular as there is no official religion in them. However, it is different from the western conception of state-religion dichotomy. Indeed the state has acted as intrusive and regulating authority in

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  • The Islamic State in Khorasan Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad0

    • Commentary, Reviews
    • January 27, 2019

    When the news of the proclamation of the so-called Islamic state was made by self-styled Baghdadi, very few had thought that it would emerge as a force to reckon with in different parts of the Muslim world. Well beyond the Middle east, it had a special significance for Central and South Asia. With the help

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  • The Baloch and identity – How Pakistan dealt with the question of identities; Balochistan and Gwadar Port0

    • Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
    • April 9, 2018

    Pakistan as a post-colonial state has deployed two forms of reductionism against identities. One is identity disregard entailing either ignoring or neglecting them altogether. Second is singular affiliation which takes the form of assuming that particular person preeminently belongs to one collectivity only while subsuming all others. Both are toxic, incitement to ignore all affiliations

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  • SHIA-SUNNI CONFLICT IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: A BEACON OF HOPE4

    • Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
    • April 6, 2018

    Sect formation is not peculiar to the religion of Islam; however, the sectarian violence demonstrated all along in the Muslim world is a new phenomenon. What is happening between Shia and Sunni in a different nation of the world is less a result of theological dispute than the politics of the time in which Saudi

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  • Book Review; The Raisina Model; Indian Democracy at 700

    • Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
    • April 5, 2018

    Indian democracy at 70 by Meghnand Desai by Zaboor Ahmad    April 5, 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking on 7th February 2018 in Indian Parliament made the following claim about India’s democracy. “India did not get democracy due to Pandit Nehru, as Congress wants us to believe. Please look at our rich history.

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  • Why Scams Are Here to Stay0

    • Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
    • March 30, 2018

    Book Review ‘Corruption is a problem of political economy.’ We live in the midst of scams and scandals- a scoundrel times, but simultaneously we also have become accustomed to corruption. The book under review is an attempt to get the measure of political corruption in contemporary India and see what could be done to combat

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  • India’s Argumentative Battle in Kashmir0

    • Commentary
    • February 15, 2018

    by Zaboor Ahmad      15/2/2018 Ever since 1947, India and Pakistan have laid claim to Kashmir and scholars continue to search and dilate the reasons for this intractable conflict between them. Apart from the argument of accession signed by the last Dogra Hindu king, Hari Singh with India; India has sought to keep the Kashmir

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  • Book Review: When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics by Milan Vaishnav0

    • Commentary, Issue 23 – Winter 2018, Reviews
    • December 2, 2017

    Why Criminals are in demand in Indian Politics     To all intents and purposes, the quality of democracy will suffer and deteriorate as the criminal elements are world over entering the legislative bodies. In this context, India is no exception. In India’s boisterous democracy, the discourse over the role of criminals in politics is

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  • WRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM

    WRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM0

    • Blog
    • January 31, 2017

    WRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM Ahmad Zaboor Zahir-ud- din-Muhammad Babur, the King who established the mighty Mughal Empire in India, while on his death bed, bequeathed following wise counsels to his son Humayun, “overlook the differences between the Shias and Sunnis. Otherwise, the decrepitude of Islam would follow.” (John

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  • Forces Behind The partition

    Forces Behind The partition0

    • Issue 16 - Spring 2016
    • April 11, 2016

    Book review: Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Henry Holt & Company 401 pp Released: 2007   Alex Von Tunzelmann, a British scholar in her path breaking book Indian summer, the secret history of the end of an empire is

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  • Impending disaster of Baluchistan to Pakistan

    Impending disaster of Baluchistan to Pakistan0

    • Issue 16 - Spring 2016
    • April 3, 2016

    Pakistan to all intents and purposes, was indeed carved out on the underpinnings of religion from its womb called Hindustan in which Islam was said to play a unifying role. But Pakistan that emerged has been ethnically and linguistically an amalgam of complex states. Pashtun’s and Punjabi’s are scattered along length and breadth of country

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