Mohd Tahir Ganie

@ssispune.edu.in

Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of International Studies
Symbiosis International (Deemed University)

Mohd Tahir Ganie


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EDUCATION

PhD in Politics and International Relations

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Social Sciences, Political Science and International Relations
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Scopus Publications

  • Authoritarian Conflict Management and Post-370 Kashmir: The Logic of Comprehensive Coercive Integration
    Mohd Tahir Ganie
    Peace Review, 2026
    Over half a decade after India abrogated Article 370, Kashmir has undergone unprecedented changes through what this article terms Comprehensive Coercive Integration (CCI). Situating CCI within the paradigms of authoritarian conflict management (ACM) and illiberal peacebuilding, the article argues that India’s post-2019 approach represents a specific variant of ACM, one that moves beyond conflict management toward comprehensive territorial absorption. This framework examines how New Delhi systematically restructured the region through legal, demographic, administrative, and symbolic measures. The analysis explores a shift from accommodation to absorption. Political space has contracted with mainstream parties navigating reduced influence and political newcomers, with little established credibility, being cultivated. Demographic engineering proceeds through domicile certificates for nonresidents and property purchases by outsiders, while administrative control has intensified through direct governance and narrative management. While militant violence has decreased, the legitimacy of the new arrangement remains disputed. Drawing on Höglund and Kovacs’s (Citation2010) typology of negative peace, the article characterizes the current situation as a form of fearful and contested peace, in which the absence of political unrest and violence coexists with unresolved political incompatibilities and repression. This article offers a preliminary assessment suggesting that durable peace requires reversing this trajectory toward genuine autonomy, political pluralism, and inclusive dialogue addressing and harmonizing political aspirations of the people of the region.
  • Implications of Ethnic Conflict in Manipur for India’s National Security
    K. Thangjalen Kipgen, Mohd Tahir Ganie
    South Asia Research, 2025
    This article analyses the 2023 ethnic violence in the Indian border state of Manipur, examining the factors which contributed to the conflict. Looking at the proliferation of arms, the emergence of radicalised youth organisations, and the exploitation of the situation by armed and secessionist groups, the article highlights the implications of the Manipur conflict for India’s national security. The article argues that delayed and inadequate government response exacerbated the conflict, forcing the two warring communities—the Meiteis and Kuki—to bolster their security measures through a parallel security system. These developments pose a challenge to Indian national security in the sensitive border region and therefore require urgent government intervention. While recovering stolen arms and bolstering border security along the India–Myanmar border remains crucial for long-term peace, the article suggests consociationalism for Manipur, a governance model that has shown—albeit with certain limitations—efficacy in addressing ethnic violence in deeply divided societies.
  • Locating Jammu and Kashmir
    Mohd Tahir Ganie, Suhail R. Lone
    Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies, 2023
  • Conflict and Narratives of Hope: A Study of Youth Discourses in Kashmir
    Mohd Tahir Ganie
    Irish Studies in International Affairs, 2022
    States that have prioritised conflict resolution and peacebuilding in their foreign policies often under-prioritise the need to have a highly developed capacity to analyse why conflicts erupt and are sustained over long periods. Analysis of causes of conflict is often dominated by geopolitical reasoning, power politics or essentialist views of ideological incompatibility. However, many subjugated communities maintain mass support for social mobilisation or even armed conflict when external expert analysis suggests they have no chance of success. Why do such communities persevere—even inter-generationally against such odds? This article sets out to examine an inconspicuous element, hope, in the context of the Kashmir conflict by looking into a corpus of narratives of Kashmiri youth published in the post-2008 period, which witnessed recurrent political unrest and mobilisations around the demand of Kashmiri self-determination. The element of hope, in the context of this paper, is traced in the political narratives which, it is argued, have pragmatic intent and are typically goal-oriented and, therefore, in their cumulative effect engender a discursive reservoir in which a future of possibilities is implicit. When hope is preserved and nurtured through collective memory incorporated into narratives (or 'organised remembrance') it undercuts a state's attempt to present the status quo as a fait accompli. We can conceive of hope in this context as a psycho-political phenomenon. From the generational perspective, the element of hope (as an accomplice of memory) has an instrumental value for a self-determination movement whose continuity depends on the inter-generational reproduction of a national liberation struggle propelled by hope embodied in political action.
  • CLAIMING THE STREETS: Political Resistance Among Kashmiri Youth
    Mohd Tahir Ganie
    Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies, 2022
    This chapter examines the role of youth in the Kashmiri self-determination movement in the post-2008 period – in which three major youth-led political mobilizations occurred in 2010, 2016, and 2017. Looking at the varied expressions and modes of dissent by Kashmiri youth, the chapter advances three key arguments: first, youth has emerged as the most significant political actor in the Kashmir conflict. The post-2008 political mobilizations were led by the new political generation, whose insurgent political consciousness must be contextualized in its unique historical location, characterized by deep militarization, violence, and communicative practices. Second, this new political generation is part of the mobilized generation, an ensemble of intergenerational adherents of the azaadi movement cutting across age, gender, and class. This implies that pro-azaadi organizations do not necessarily need to reach out to the public to enlist or mobilize support, because support for resistance is a given. Finally, youth political resistance in Kashmir is driven by “the structural paralysis” that defines the relationship between India and Kashmiris.
  • ‘All I got is stones in my hand’: youth-led stone pelting protests in Indian-administered Kashmir
    Mohd Tahir Ganie
    Social Movement Studies, 2021
    Since 2008, three anti-India mass uprisings occurred in Indian-administered Kashmir, resulting in a marked resurgence of the Kashmiri self-determination movement, known popularly as the Tehreek. In the resurgent Tehreek, stone-throwing – called kanni-jang in the local parlance, and stone pelting in the English language media – has emerged as a new and widely used act in the repertoire of Kashmiri resistance. The latest example of its use appeared after the Indian state’s lockdown of Kashmir on 5 August 2019, when approximately 1193 stone-throwing protests were reported across Kashmir. For India, this protest tactic presents huge security challenges, yet for the Tehreek activists, stone pelting is an effective mode of protest that carries symbolic importance. In fact, the stone-throwing youth have become a signifier of the anti-India rebellion in post-2008 Kashmir. This article highlights the main factors that underlie the stone-throwing phenomenon in the Himalayan territory.
  • Metaphors in the political narratives of Kashmiri Youth
    Mohd Tahir Ganie
    South Asia Journal of South Asia Studies, 2019
    This paper explores the role of metaphor in political discourses in Kashmir. Through a micro-study of one year—2016, which saw the eruption of a mass uprising—of what may be described as resistance literature, I demonstrate that the ‘paradise lost’ and ‘wound’ metaphors permeate Kashmiri political discourse. While the ‘paradise lost’ metaphor broadly entails a consensual interpretation, the ‘wound’ metaphor expresses Kashmiri political subjectivity in a distinctly emotional way, as this metaphor is embedded in affective cultural practices. The paper seeks to deepen the understanding of Kashmiri political narratives by examining to what effect metaphorical language operates within them, and how it allows Kashmiri youth a creative space for dissent in terms of evocatively expressing political grievances, countering statist narratives and affirming a sense of political community.