Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris write by Christopher Snedden. This book was released on 2015. Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The seemingly intractable Kashmir dispute and the fate of Kashmiris throughout South Asia and beyond are the twin themes in Snedden's meticulously researched book.
Culture and Political History of Kashmir
Culture and Political History of Kashmir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Political History of Kashmir write by Prithivi Nath Kaul Bamzai. This book was released on 1994. Culture and Political History of Kashmir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kashmir
Kashmir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kashmir write by Chitralekha Zutshi. This book was released on 2019-09-11. Kashmir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1947-48, when India and Pakistan fought their first war over Kashmir, it has been reduced to an endlessly disputed territory. As a result, the people of this region and its rich history are often forgotten. This short introduction untangles the complex issue of Kashmir to help readers understand not just its past, present, and future, but also the sources of the existing misconceptions about it. In lucidly written prose, the author presents a range of ways in which Kashmir has been imagined by its inhabitants and outsiders over the centuries—a sacred space, homeland, nation, secular symbol, and a zone of conflict. Kashmir thus emerges in this account as a geographic entity as well as a composite of multiple ideas and shifting boundaries that were produced in specific historical and political contexts.
Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition write by Shahla Hussain. This book was released on 2021-06-10. Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects write by Mridu Rai. This book was released on 2019-12-31. Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disputed between India and Pakistan, Kashmir contains a large majority of Muslims subject to the laws of a predominantly Hindu and increasingly "Hinduized" India. How did religion and politics become so enmeshed in defining the protest of Kashmir's Muslims against Hindu rule? This book reaches beyond standard accounts that look to the 1947 partition of India for an explanation. Examining the 100-year period before that landmark event, during which Kashmir was ruled by Hindu Dogra kings under the aegis of the British, Mridu Rai highlights the collusion that shaped a decisively Hindu sovereignty over a subject Muslim populace. Focusing on authority, sovereignty, legitimacy, and community rights, she explains how Kashmir's modern Muslim identity emerged. Rai shows how the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was formed as the East India Company marched into India beginning in the late eighteenth century. After the 1857 rebellion, outright annexation was abandoned as the British Crown took over and princes were incorporated into the imperial framework as junior partners. But, Rai argues, scholarship on other regions of India has led to misconceptions about colonialism, not least that a "hollowing of the crown" occurred throughout as Brahman came to dominate over King. In Kashmir the Dogra kings maintained firm control. They rode roughshod over the interests of the vast majority of their Kashmiri Muslim subjects, planting the seeds of a political movement that remains in thrall to a religiosity thrust upon it for the past 150 years.
