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The Unresolved Question of Kashmir

Tue, September 23, 2025
Dinner Program
Šumit Ganguly

The dispute between India and Pakistan over the state of Jammu and Kashmir has persisted since the emergence of the two countries following the end of the British Indian Empire in 1947. The dispute has resulted in three wars (1947-48, 1965, and 1999) and multiple crises. Multiple attempts at conflict resolution at multilateral and bilateral levels have failed to end this protracted conflict. Šumit Ganuly, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, will trace the origins of the dispute, discuss the attempts at conflict resolution and suggest possible scenarios under which it could eventually come to a close.

Šumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow and directs the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is also Distinguished Professor and the Tagore Chair Emeritus at Indiana University—Bloomington. 

Ganguly is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over twenty books on the contemporary politics of South Asia. His most recent book, co-edited with Klaus Brummer, is States and their Nationals Abroad: Support, Co-Opt and Repress (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Ganguly’s Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at CMC.

 

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