> An excellent two sentence summary of the Kashmir conflicts I really don't think that's a great summary of the conflict. It's the common narrative that's put

> An excellent two sentence summary of the Kashmir conflicts I really don't think that's a great summary of the conflict. It's the common narrative that's put forth, particularly in the US, because it makes sense through the lens of US foreign policy, but it doesn't really explain the full background and proper historical or political context. I'm not going to provide an alternative, though, because I don't think the background of the conflict can be summarized in two sentences, any more than World War I can. Sure, you can say "the war happened because Franz Ferdinand got shot. This set off a chain of events which escalated into a global war" and you wouldn't be wrong. But that's the sort of explanation that really only makes sense of you already know the answer, which is the most dangerous kind.