Kashmir

Kashmir

History, Politics, Representation

Zutshi, Chitralekha (College of William and Mary, Virginia)

Cambridge University Press

11/2017

348

Dura

Inglês

9781107181977

15 a 20 dias

On the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence, and the creation of Pakistan, this collection brings together fourteen essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. These essays look beyond the high politics of the conflict and ponder on lesser known aspects and areas of Kashmir.
Acknowledgements; Map 1. Pre-partition Jammu and Kashmir; Map 2. Contemporary Kashmir; Introduction: new directions in the study of Kashmir Chitralekha Zutshi; Part I. History: 1. To 'tear the mask off the face of the past': archaeology and politics in Jammu and Kashmir Mridu Rai; 2. Contesting urban space: shrine culture and the discourse on Kashmiri Muslim identities and protest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chitralekha Zutshi; 3. The rise and fall of new Kashmir Andrew Whitehead; 4. Kashmiri visions of freedom: the past and the present Shahla Hussain; Part II. Politics: 5. Azad Kashmir: integral to India, integrated into Pakistan, lacking integrity as an autonomous entity Christopher Snedden; 6. 'Not part of Kashmir, but of the Kashmir dispute': the political predicaments of Gilgit-Baltistan Martin Soekefeld; 7. Law, gender and governance in Kashmir Seema Kazi; 8. 'Survival is now our politics': Kashmiri Pandit community identity and the politics of homeland Haley Duschinski; 9. Beyond the 'Kashmir' meta-narrative: caste, identities and the politics of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir Mohita Bhatia; 10. Contested governance, competing nationalisms and disenchanted publics: Kashmir beyond intractability? Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay; Part III. Representation: 11. Embedded mystics: writing Lal Ded and Nund Rishi into the Kashmiri landscape Dean Accardi; 12. Producing paradise: Kashmir's shawl economy, the quest for authenticity and the politics of representation in Europe, c.1770-1870 Vanessa Chishti; 13. The Kashmiri as Muslim in Bollywood's 'new Kashmir films' Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 14. The witness of poetry: political feeling in Kashmiri poems Suvir Kaul; Notes on contributors; Index.
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