Srinagar, Nov. 28 -- Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz's Sardar Patel Aur Kashmir enters the conversation like a patient guide opening old files and asking us to read them again.

The book works as a historical study and a personal reflection, and its mix of both gives it weight.

It circles around a question that hovers over every political debate in the valley: how did the early choices of 1947 and 1948 set the tone for the decades that followed?

The review grows out of a long interaction I had with Prof. Soz at the Kashmir Society International before the book's release. He walked through his claims with care and confidence, and those conversations shape the way the book lands on the page.Bookshelves

One of the strongest sections explores Sard...