A scholarly, challenging history of Kashmir from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, which created the princely states of Kshmir and Jammu, until the forced accession of Kashmir to to India in 1947. A professor of history at Yale, Rai throws light on the role of the British and the East India company, subjugation of the Muslim majority by Dogra kings and the emergence of Kashmir's modern Muslim identity.  (IDA377, $25.95)