IN-DEPTH: India’s High Court Upholds Contentious Kashmir Reorganization in What Experts Call a Geopolitical Win

Published on December 12, 2023

NEW DELHI—On Dec. 11, India’s Supreme Court upheld a 2019 Indian government decision revoking special status for the former state of Jammu and Kashmir. The move strengthens Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is in India’s geopolitical interest, experts say. Four years ago, India split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two federally governed territories—one, Jammu-Kashmir, bordering Pakistan, and the other, Ladakh, bordering China. India did so by abolishing the over seventy-year-old Article 370 of the Constitution, which resulted from the 1947 treaty of accession between the just-born Indian nation and the Maharaja of what was then Jammu and Kashmir. Since the mid-1950s, under Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir had its own constitution, and only those holding its citizenship, called “state subjects,” could buy property in the state. State subjects also held Indian citizenship and could enjoy the privileges enjoyed by other Indian citizens....

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