Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 15: New book of Prof Hari Om, former Dean of Jammu University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and member Indian Council of Historical Research, “Buddhists Playing with Fire: Political History of Ladakh post-August 5, 2019” has hit the stands.
The book – apart from throwing light on the history of Buddhists’ struggle (1947-2019) for separation of trans-Himalayan Ladakh from Kashmir and Central rule for the region — deals with the contradictory and mutually exclusive response to the abrogation of Article 370, reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir and creation of Union Territory of Ladakh on August 5, 2019 evoked in the Buddhist-dominated Leh and Muslim dominated Kargil.
The sudden and mind-boggling change in the political attitude of the Buddhist leadership in Ladakh in 2020 forms an important part of the book.
The book, in addition, throws light on the parleys between the agitating Ladakhi leadership and Union Home Ministry aimed at restoring peace – parleys which failed to break the impasse.
Besides, the book reflects on the immediate results which would follow on the conversion of Union Territory into State of Ladakh.
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