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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009370200

ISBN-139781009370202

eBay Product ID (ePID)27073178395

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Book TitleKashmir in the Aftermath of Partition

Number of Pages402 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicAsia / General, World / General

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorShahla Hussain

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9 in

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Reviews'Shahla Hussain deftly uses a vast array of textual sources and interviews to give us a uniquely comprehensive, detailed, and insightful account of local and migratory Kashmiri intellectuals, politicians, religious leaders, journalists, poets, and others who transformed public culture in Kashmir during a century of struggles for freedom wracked by cultural fractures and stymied by dominant state powers determined to subordinate and control the Muslim majority.' David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal954.604

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Meanings of freedom in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir; 2. Freedom, loyalty, belonging: Kashmir after decolonization; 3. Puppet regimes: Collaboration and the political economy of Kashmiri resistance; 4. The politics of plebiscite: Discontent and regional Dissidence; 5. Mapping Kashmiri imaginings of freedom in the inter-regional and global arenas; 6. Jang-i-Azadi (War for freedom): Religion, politics and resistance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Map of the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir.

SynopsisIt is intended for audience interested in decolonization, identity, sovereignty. It shifts focus from the statist perceptions that construe Kashmir as a disputed region between India and Pakistan. It takes a people-centered approach to delve into Kashmiri experiences to capture the complexity of popular discourses and nationalist rhetoric., Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late 1980s. In existing scholarship, ideas of territoriality, state sovereignty, and national security have dominated the discourses on the Kashmir conflict. This book, in contrast, places Kashmir and Kashmiris at the center of historical debate and investigates a broad range of sources to illuminate a century of political players and social structures on both sides of divided Kashmir and in the wider Kashmiri diaspora. In the process, it broadens the contours of Kashmir's postcolonial and resistance history, complicates the meaning of Kashmiri identity, and reveals Kashmiris' myriad imaginings of freedom. It asserts that 'Kashmir' has emerged as a political imaginary in postcolonial era, a vision that grounds Kashmiris in their negotiations for rights not only in India and Pakistan, but also in global political spaces.

LC Classification NumberDS485.K27