“ Looked at in the kind of depth that Hamin Ast has, it becomes clear that the controversy over Article 370 has to do not simply with Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan, or Hindus and Muslims as those on the right and left maintain. What determines the weakness of the latter’s protests against its nullification is the second-class character of the Constitution’s rights and protections more generally.  ”

“ Hamīñ Ast is an outstanding book that chronicles the turbulent life of Article 370. While it was intended to be a temporary provision, it lived on for seven decades. This concise book, in six chapters, gives a complete account of what led to the drafting of Article 370 and the gradual integration of that state through a series of orders.  As this Article is now history, this book helps us understand what led to its birth and what led to its unexpected but inevitable demise ”