The Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in the Nineties

• The book provides a multi-layered, chronological dissection of a crucial decade in modern Indian history. It moves beyond political propaganda to evaluate how administrative failures and external forces drastically altered the valley's social fabric.

Manoj Joshi is a highly distinguished Indian journalist, national security expert, and author. He has worked as a member of India's National Security Advisory Board and held senior editorial positions at premier news publications like The Times of India, The Hindu, and Mail Today. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), specializing in international relations and defense strategy.

The text meticulously documents the exact genesis of modern unrest in Jammu & Kashmir. It analyzes how an initial wave of public protests and calls for azadi (freedom) by disgruntled, unemployed local youth was systematically co-opted within a single year. The narrative exposes the shadow networks, cross-border strategies, and internal political missteps that transformed a localized civil rebellion into a heavily armed, full-scale jihad against the Indian state.