Professor Sugata Bose, historian and former Trinamool MP, has criticised the Narendra Modi government for removing the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, calling it a reckless assault on federalism and democracy. "Kashmir's 12th century chronicler, Kalhana, said in his book Rajtarangini that Kashmir can be conquered by the power of spiritual merit but never by force of soldiers. PM Modi and Amit Shah have no time for such sage advice," he said.