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 wKashmir
wInternational Committee of the Red Cross
Working Group Links: 
Timelines:
  • PBS Resource 

    • http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/india-pakistan/timeline.html 
  • CNN

    • http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/06/kashmir.timeline/index.html
Maps: Background:
  • Kashmir and Its Region: A Historical Overview: A brief history with map illustrations.

    • http://www.kashmirstudygroup.net/mapsexplan/historical.html
  • J. Edgar Williams. "India, Pakistan, and Kashmir-A Personal View" American Diplomacy, Volume VII, Number 1, 2002 

    • With Pakistan reportedly taking measures to curb terrorist cells operating within that nation, at this writing it seems possible that nation and India
    will resolve peacefully the territorial dispute that has long exacerbated relations between the two great South Asian nations. The author, a retired
    career diplomat, discusses that long-standing dispute's source... (http://www.ciaonet.org/teach/cp/cp04a.html)
    http://www.kashmirstudygroup.net/mapsexplan/historical.html
  • The Kashmir Virtual Library is a subsection of the South Asia WWW Virtual

    • Library maintained by David Magier of Columbia University, which is itself a
    regional section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library maintained by Dr. T.
    Matthew Ciolek of the Australian National University
    http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/kashmir/ 
  • BBC special report on Kashmir   (good q&a on the conflict)

    • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/355280.stm
  • CNN Asia Special Feature - Kashmir 
    http://asia.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/kashmir/
  • Check out the student project on Kashmir out of Maine forat http://www.doorstokashmir.net/ (One of the Doors to Diplomacy winners.)
Literature Connections: 
  • Excerpt of  "Farewell" from the late Agha Shahid Ali's poetry collection about his native Kashmir, The Country Without a Post Office (See the complete poem on the book's site at Amazon.com)
    • . . . In the lake the arms of temples and mosques are locked 
    in each other's reflections.

    Have you soaked saffron to pour on them when they are 
    found like this centuries later in this country 
    I have stitched to your shadow?

    In this country we step out with doors in our arms.
    Children run out with windows in their arms.
    You drag it behind you in lit corridors.
    If the switch is pulled you will be torn from everything.

    At a certain point I lost track of you.
    You needed me. You needed to perfect me:
    In your absence you polished me into the Enemy.
    Your history gets in the way of my memory.
    I am everything you lost. You can't forgive me.
    I am everything you lost. Your perfect enemy. . .

    • Saadat Hasan Manto, "The Dog of Tithwal". This translation from Urdu of a short story about a dog who doesn't know which side of the border he on  is recommended as a student text for discussing life in Kashmir by group member Abdul Jabbar. http://www.sikh-history.com/literature/stories/dog.html


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