Proxy war and domestic terrorism in J&K after August 2019 Jammu and Kashmir, the northern most part of India, is known to be a regular hotspot in terms of the border issues that India has faced since its independence from the British, and the partition from Pakistan. The three bordering states of Punjab, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir suffered traumatically at those times, but its only in J&K that the trauma has carried on for 73 years. A Muslim-majority region with a Hindu ruler, who was Maharaja Hari Singh, only decided to become a part of India after Pakistan had set affiliations with the Afghani tribesmen who sent thousands of their men to set base in the Kashmir mountains, and have seemingly been there ever since. The balance of the area on a social as well political basis has been deferred for far too long. Article 370, the special status given by Nehru to the state was supposed to be a temporary affair, until the articulation of its constitution, but