Kashmir Under 370: A Personal History By J&K'S Former DirectMahendra 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 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 J&K. It is a lament for the years and lives

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