The Crackdown on Kashmir

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🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

India has guaranteed a degree of autonomy to the people of Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, since 1947. Why did India unilaterally erase that autonomy this week? Guest: Jeffrey Gettleman, the South Asia bureau chief for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: To Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, eliminating the autonomy of Kashmir was an administrative move. But to his critics, the decision was a blow to India’s democracy and secular identity.On Thursday, Mr. Modi addressed the nation about the decision against a backdrop of rising protests, mass arrests and escalating tensions with Pakistan.Read more about the roots of the crisis and what could happen next.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babbara.
0:33.0	This is the Daily.
0:40.0	Today, since 1947, India has granted the people of cash payment a set of protections that guarantee
0:50.0	their autonomy.
0:52.0	Jeffrey Gettelman, on why India just erased that autonomy.
0:59.0	It's Friday, August 9.
1:08.8	Jeffrey, tell me how you came to understand what was going on in cashmere.
1:14.8	So over the weekend, I had been talking closely with a local journalist who works for us,
1:23.1	named Samir Yasser.
1:24.1	I've worked with him a lot.
1:26.0	I've traveled across cashmere with him.
1:28.8	He had told me that thousands of Indian army troops had flooded into the valley in the
1:35.9	last few days.
1:38.1	And there were barriers being erected.
1:40.9	People were being called up for extra duty who worked for the government.
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