Why do India and Pakistan fight over Kashmir?

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A dive into the history behind today's tensions. In this episode, Dan is joined by historian and journalist Andrew Whitehead to explain the historical context behind the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region, stemming from the partition of India in 1947 to the present day. They examine the political and cultural complexities of this contested and heavily militarised region.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore

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1:10.3	On the 22nd of April this year, 26 people, 25 of them Indians and one Nepali, in Indian-administered Kashmir, were killed by gunmen who opened fire on visitors near the popular tourist town of Pahalgum. There has been a long-running history of violence in this part of the world.
1:32.3	There's been an active insurgency since 1989 in this majority Muslim region of India. It's claimed
1:39.8	tens of thousands of lives. Initially, no group claimed responsibility for the attack,
1:45.3	although the Indian Foreign Secretary of Ikram Misery
1:48.2	would later say that the gunmen were members of Lashkar-e-Tibai,
1:54.0	a Pakistan-based militant group.
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