Kashmir After 2019: Abrogation of Article 370 and Completing the Partition

This volume portrays India’s removal of Article 370 in August 2019 as an effort to stop the suffering of its highly diverse people. Though this signified the completion of the partition of 1947, latent adherence to dreams of freedom (Azadi) indicates that this needs to be more widely understood as a viable peace-making effort.

Werner Menski is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Laws at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. He developed particularly the teaching of comparative legal studies with an interdisciplinary, multidimensional South Asian focus, through courses including Legal Systems of Asia and Africa, Law and Society in South Asia and Ethnic Minorities and the Law. Apart from supervising numerous doctoral students, he published 14 books, including Muslim Family Law (with D. Pearl, 3rd edn. 1998), Modern Indian Family Law (2002, 2016), Hindu Law (2003) and Comparative Law in a Global Context: The Legal Systems of Asia and Africa (2nd edn, 2006). He has contributed almost 300 published articles, continues to be co-editor of South Asia Research and remains active in mentoring junior scholars.

Muneeb Yousuf received his PhD from the Academy of International Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi. He is a Deputy Editor of South Asia Research. His research articles have been published in Studia Islamica, Contemporary South Asia and South Asia Research, among others. He also regularly writes on international affairs with a special focus on Pakistan and Kashmir and his work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Telegraph, Al-Jazeera, The Diplomat, Frontline Magazine and several other media outlets.