Days after Donald Trump offered to bring his dealmaking skills to bear on India and Pakistan’s seemingly intractable Kashmir dispute, Narendra Modi has dramatically shaken up the pieces of the puzzle.
The Indian prime minister’s sudden move to revoke Indian-administered Kashmir’s special status may have been in his manifesto for two elections, but it has caused domestic and international shock nonetheless.
Abolishing the region’s autonomy by revoking article 370, and thus paving the way for Hindu migrants to buy land and take jobs in the Muslim majority area, increases Mr Modi’s standing as a populist strongman. But it will perhaps irrevocably damage Delhi’s relations with the residents of Kashmir,…
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