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The origins of the struggle of the people of Kashmir to determine their own future, following Partition and the subsequent refusal of the newly independent State of India to grant a promised plebiscite, are here examined from the unique perspective of the granddaughter of Kashmir's first Prime Minister examining the coup of 1953. Using family archival material, the author unearths both a family's story and the background to the decades' long suppression of this cause. She recounts the measures taken against the Plebiscite Front, and the more than ten-year imprisonment of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, during which the struggle was spearheaded by his indomitable wife, Akbar Jehan.

A review essay on books by (1) J. H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006); (2) Nikolas Kozloff, Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); (3) John Lynch, Simon Bolivar: A Life (London: Yale University Press, 2006) & (4) Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Hugo Chaves: The Definative Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President (New York: Random House, 2007).

A review essay on books by (1) Eric Hobsbawm, Franc-tireur. Autobiographie ([Free Shooter. Autobiographie] (Paris: Hachette Litteratures, 2007); (2) Jean-Francois Nadeau, Bourgault ([Bourgault] Montreal: Lux Editeur, 2007); & (3) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Entretiens avec Jean Duflot ([Discussions with Jean Duflot] Paris: Editions Gutenberg, 2007).