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'A Mission in Kashmir'
On this page I have posted, chapter by chapter, the full text of my book A Mission in Kashmir, which was published by Penguin India in 2007 (and republished by Gulshan Books in Srinagar in 2014 - but this is the Penguin India edition). It's all here bar the illustrations. I now have the publication rights for the book, and I'm happy to make it available to all in this manner.
Here's A Mission in Kashmir chapter by chapter:
| 0_prelims.pdf | |
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| 01_an_italian.pdf | |
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| 02_caught_in.pdf | |
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| 03_wild_bearded.pdf | |
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| 04_the_mission.pdf | |
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| 05_the_attack.pdf | |
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| 06_signing.pdf | |
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| 07_liberating.pdf | |
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| 08_heading.pdf | |
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| 09_ten_days.pdf | |
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| 10_war.pdf | |
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| 11_telling.pdf | |
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| 12_i_think.pdf | |
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| 13_notes.pdf | |
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| 14_bibliography.pdf | |
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... and (by request) the index
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Enthusiasms
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London Fictions
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A Mission in Kashmir
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- Full text: A Mission in Kashmir
- 'The People's Militia: Communists and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s'
- The Rise and Fall of New Kashmir
- The Making of the 'New Kashmir' manifesto
- 'For the Conversion of Kashmir'
- 'I shall paint my nails with the blood of those that covet me'
- Freda Bedi looking 'From a Woman's Window' on Kashmir
- Kashmir 1947: Testimonies of a Contested History
- Kashmir @ 70
- Kashmir 47 Images
- Kashmir 47 on film
- Kashmir 47 in fiction
- Father Shanks's Kashmir 'Diary'
- Krishna Misri: 1947, a year of change
- Shanti Ambardar: Kashmir 1947
- The O'Brienites >
-
Clerkenwell
>
- NW5 and Around >
-
London Fictions
>
-
Voices
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Partition Voices
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- Partition Voices: L.K. Advani
- Partition Voices: Ram Advani
- Partition Voices: Qazi Ghulam Ajmiri
- Partition Voices: Angela Aranha
- Partition Voices: Helen Baldwin
- Partition Voices: Bali family
- Partition Voices: Edward Behr
- Partition Voices: Benazir Bhutto
- Partition Voices: H.K. Burki
- Partition Voices: Sailen Chatterjee
- Partition Voices: Pran Chopra
- Partition Voices: K.S. + Ayesha Duggal
- Partition Voices: Alys Faiz
- Partition Voices: Jugal Chandra Ghosh
- Partition Voices: Ashoka Gupta
- Partition Voices: I.K. Gujral
- Partition Voices: Syed Najmuddin Hashim
- Partition Voices: Khorshed Italia
- Partition Voices: Pran Nath Jalali
- Partition Voices: D.N. Kaul
- Partition Voices: Jolly Mohan Kaul
- Partition Voices: Basant Kaur
- Partition Voices: Betty Keyes
- Partition Voices: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan
- Partition Voices: Usha Khanna
- Partition Voices: Frank Leeson
- Partition Voices: Abdul Ghani Lone
- Partition Voices: Gopal 'Patha' Mukherjee
- Partition Voices: Kuldip Nayar
- Partition Voices: Amrita Pritam
- Partition Voices: Begum Aizaz Rasul
- Partition Voices: Francis Rath
- Partition Voices: Annada Sankar Ray
- Partition Voices: Bhisham Sahni
- Partition Voices: Sat Paul Sahni
- Partition Voices: Sir Ian Scott
- Partition Voices: Sir Paul Scott
- Partition Voices: Sheila Sengupta
- Partition Voices: Mahmooda Ahmad Ali Shah + Sajida Zameer Ahmad
- Partition Voices: Bapsi Sidhwa & Urvashi Butalia
- Partition Voices: Air Marshal Arjan Singh
- Partition Voices: Bir Bahadur Singh
- Partition Voices: Karan Singh
- Partition Voices: Khushwant Singh
- Partition Voices: Shingara Singh
- Partition Voices: H.S. Surjeet
- Partition Voices: Ben and Marguerite Suter
- Partition Voices: Leela Thompson
- Partition Voices: K.B. Vaid
- Kashmir Voices >
-
Communist Voices
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- Communist Voices: Manmohan Adhikari
- Communist Voices: Jyoti Basu
- Communist Voices: Brian Bunting
- Communist Voices: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Communist Voices: Benoy Choudhury
- Communist Voices: Anima Dasgupta
- Communist Voices: Sailen Dasgupta
- Communist Voices: Denis Goldberg
- Communist Voices: Grootvlie miners
- Communist Voices: Indrajit Gupta
- Communist Voices: Chris Hani
- Communist Voices: Norman Le Brocq
- Communist Voices: Lionel Martin
- Communist Voices: Vishwanath Mathur
- Communist Voices: Geeta Mukherjee
- Communist Voices: E.M.S. Namboodiripad
- Communist Voices: John Rettie
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- Political Voices: Sally Alexander
- Political Voices: Lou Appleton
- Political Voices: Murray Bookchin
- Political Voices: Fenner Brockway
- Political Voices: Tony Cliff
- Political Voices: Nellie Dick
- Political Voices: Leah Feldman
- Political Voices: Jeffrey Hamm
- Political Voices: Denis Healey
- Political Voices: Eric Hobsbawm
- Political Voices: Rose Kerrigan
- Political Voices: George Matthews
- Political Voices: Ian Mikardo
- Political Voices: Mick Mindel
- Political Voices: Adrian Mitchell
- Political Voices: Phil Piratin
- Political Voices: Betty Reid
- Political Voices: Fermin Rocker
- Political Voices: Ralph Russell
- Political Voices: Sam Russell
- Political Voices: John Saville
- Political Voices: Alfred Sherman
- Political Voices: Screaming Lord Sutch
- Political Voices: Dorothy Thompson
- Political Voices: E.P. Thompson
- Political Voices: Tom Wilson
- Political Voices: Harry Young
- The Land Song
- Harry Pollitt on disc
- The British New Left >
- South Asia
- Burma
-
Partition Voices
>
- Collecting
-
Radio Gems
- 'What's Left of Communism?'
- 'India: a people partitioned'
- India's Minorities
- Documentaries and Features
-
From Our Own Correspondent
>
- FOOC: Working at Westminster 1990
- FOOC: Ulster's Talking Shop 1991
- FOOC: House Rules at Westminster 1992
- FOOC: India's Red Fort State
- FOOC: Keeping Kosher in Cuba
- FOOC: Italy's Gourmand Communists 1992
- FOOC: Scoundrel Politicians - 1993
- FOOC: Kashmir's New Puritans 1993
- FOOC: The Rajah of Bihar 1993
- FOOC: Bringing the Gospel to Mizoram 1993
- FOOC: Netaji, India's Lost Leader 1994
- FOOC: A Self-Respect Wedding 1994
- FOOC: The Miseries of Manipur 1994
- FOOC: Village Bangladesh 1994
- FOOC: Indian Beauty 1995
- FOOC: Calcutta's Communists Discover Capitalism 1995
- FOOC: Localism in Ladakh 1995
- FOOC: Bhutan, not quite Paradise
- FOOC: Crime and Indian Politics 1995
- FOOC: Sonia Gandhi 1995
- FOOC: Sri Lanka's Missing Leaders 1995
- FOOC: India Votes 1996
- FOOC: Communism Revisited 1996
- FOOC: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1996
- FOOC: Kerala's Jewish Community 1996
- FOOC: India's Corruption Scandals 1996
- FOOC: The Maldives Crowded Capital 1996
- FOOC: India's Polluted Capital 1996
- FOOC: Jinnah, Pakistan's Quaid 1997
- FOOC: Mauritius, an Indian Ocean melting pot
- FOOC: The Hijras Blessing 1998
- FOOC: Massacre at Baramulla 2003
- FOOC: An Old Photo from Kashmir 2007
- FOOC: Prosperity Driven from Detroit 2008
- FOOC: An Atheist in MLK's Atlanta2013
- FOOC: San Francisco's City Lights 2014
- FOOC: Kashmir Revisited 2014
- FOOC: By Ferry in Burma 2014
- FOOC: Toyah's Grave 2017
- FOOC: The Tibetan Colony in Kashmir 2017
- FOOC: Stars of Tamil Politics 2018
- FOOC: Koreans in Chennai 2018
- FOOC: Epitaph to Empire 2019
- FOOC: Armenians in India 2019
- FOOC: Lahore's Bradlaugh Hall 2020
- FOOC: Chennai and the British Empire 2023
- What's your favourite political song?
- London Snapshots
- Writing
- Gallery
- Contact