{"id":5829,"date":"2019-08-06T01:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/india-cancellation-of-kashmir-special-status-will-have-consequences"},"modified":"2019-08-06T01:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:19:18","slug":"indias-cancellation-of-kashmirs-special-status-will-have-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5829","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s cancellation of Kashmir\u2019s special status will have consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi government\u2019s move comes amid already high tensions between India and Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>The significance of Kashmir to India is difficult to exaggerate. The decision by Narendra Modi\u2019s recently re-elected government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/india-revoke-disputed-kashmir-special-status\">remove the disputed Himalayan region\u2019s special status <\/a>under the constitution is no legal technicality, but a statement of intent and ideology.<\/p>\n<p>As the predominantly Hindu India\u2019s only Muslim majority state, adherents of the country\u2019s secular tradition of politics have long seen Kashmir\u2019s continuing inclusion within the vast democracy as evidence that all faiths can thrive together. This contrasts India\u2019s immense religious diversity with neighbouring Pakistan\u2019s strong Muslim identity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/india-cancellation-of-kashmir-special-status-will-have-consequences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi government\u2019s move comes amid already high tensions between India and PakistanThe significance of Kashmir to India is difficult to exaggerate. The decision by Narendra Modi\u2019s recently re-elected government to remove the disputed Himalayan region\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}