Shahla Hussain

Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108901130
• Artikelnr.: 66181679

Autorenporträt

Shahla Hussain teaches in the Department of History at St. John's University, USA. Her field of specialization is South Asian History and her research focuses on the questions of identity, sovereignty and self-determination in postcolonial South Asia. Her other research interests include migrations, transnationalism and diaspora studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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.