Sehar Iqbal is an independent researcher working at the intersection between research and grassroots development work in Jammu and Kashmir. She is the author of A Strategic Myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir

July 5, 2023

Analysis

The Myth of Underdevelopment

Legal autonomy and land reform in Jammu and Kashmir

On August 5, 2019, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah presented the draft of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Reorganization Bill in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. The bill threatened to permanently alter the legal, political, and…