More than 1,300 people have now been arrested in Indian-administered Kashmir, as Narendra Modi’s government continued to enforce a complete lockdown in an attempt to stave off a popular uprising.

Cut off from the outside world by a complete communications blockade, locals in Srinagar told The Independent they no longer recognise their city, transformed into a maze of barbed wire barricades since the government moved to strip Kashmir of its autonomy.

Among those 1,300 arrested or detained in their homes, a senior police official said, were 350 politicians. They include – for the first time in Kashmir’s recent history – the entire leadership of all the region’s pro-India parties, including three former chief ministers.