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| Prof Om’s book ‘J&K: Conflicting Perceptions’ released | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 20 -Prof Hari Om’s book titled “Jammu and Kashmir: Conflicting Perceptions” was released by former Director General of Police M M Khajuria at a function held at the Brigadiar Rajinder Singh Auditorium in Jammu University campus here today. Professor R L Bhat, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Jammu, presided over the function.
The author in his book has tried to lay bare the entire gamut of events which led to the agitation against the land diversion on temporary basis to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board
Prof Hari Om has described the agitation in Jammu as the 'mother of all movements' and established that even the non-cooperation and the civil disobedience movements during the Indian Freedom Struggle could not be compared with the epoch-making developments in this strategic region of the country
Supporting its contentions by extensive documentation, elaborate description of the events and lucid analysis, Prof. Hari Om has debunked the attempts in Kashmir valley and New Delhi to rationalize and justify the agitation in the Kashmir Valley against the Land diversion as well as brand the mass upsurge in Jammu as communal and divisive.
The author has objectively and truthfully described the role of various political parties in the state as well as the state Government and the Centre. He has been ruthlessly honest in describing the acts of omission and commission of both BJP and Congress during agitation. He has also been unsparing about the failures of Sangharsh Samiti which spearheaded the agitation in Jammu, particularly its attempts to downgrade the level of dialogue with the government and secure a truce over the issue as early as possible and bail out the forces responsible for the agitation.
Prof Hari Om has sought to link the agitation in Jammu and the failures of the government and the political establishment to the contradictions in the nation- building vision since inception of the Independent India, particularly the perverted secular perspectives which guided it. This aspect of the book will certainly be analyzed and assessed by the scholars in the future.
Prof M K Teng, former Head of Political Science Department, Kashmir University, Prof Dipankar Sengupta of the Department of Economics, University of Jammu also spoke on the occasion while Prof Poonam Chowdhary presented the welcome address welcomed the distinguished guests and conducted the proceedings and Associate Professor of History Dr Sharda Dubey delivered the vote of thanks.
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