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Ep. 134: Kashmir and Article 370

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Self-Determination

What constitutes self-determination how are the people to speak for themselves is something that I think always remains an open question. What made Abdullah sort of wear towards you know wanting independence in the early 50s so there were two things first of all it is not absolutely clear that independence was Abdullah's favorite option because his own position was a little more nuanced than independence. He knew very well that Pakistan was unlikely to be a state where these kinds of policies would flourish and he has been proven right by history.

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