About the Book: Kashmir Under 370: A Personal History by JandKs Former Director
General of Police
Mahendra Sabharwal was the first IPS officer to be directly assigned the Jammu
and Kashmir cadre, in 1964. But when he retired in 2001, after serving as chief
of the states police, he was not permitted to buy land and settle down there.
Sabharwal was seen as an outsider, an interloper, in the state he loved and had
served for close to four decades. This book is a sharply observed and astutely
analytical personal history of JandK. It is a lament for the years and lives
lost, and a critique of