About the Book: A Modern History of Jammu and Kashmir Volume Three The Time of
Turbulence (1975 2021)
This third volume in Harbans Singhs important and insightful trilogy on modern
Jammu and Kashmir examines the period from 1975, when Sheikh Abdullah returned
to active politics, after the IndiraSheikh Accord, to head a Congresssupported
government, to the present day. The book discusses the emergence of the
separatist movement, the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, and the
drastic decision of the BJP Central government to abrogate Article 370 of the
Indian Constitution—which granted special status to the state—and bifurcate the
state into two Union Territories—Jammu and Kashmir, and