Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation

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Kashmir
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New Directions in the Study of Kashmir
	Defining Kashmir
	History
	Politics
	Representation
	Endnotes
	References
Part I: HISTORY
	1. To ‘Tear the Mask off the Face of the Past’: Archaeology and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir
		Introduction
		Archaeology and the colonial state
		Archaeology and the Dogras
		Archaeology and Kashmiri Muslims
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
			Primary sources
			Secondary sources
	2. Contesting Urban Space: Shrine Culture and the Discourse on Kashmiri Muslim Identities and Protest in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
		Introduction
		The cast of characters
		Defining Islam
		Contesting urban space and articulating protest
		Legalizing community identity
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	3. The Rise and Fall of New Kashmir
		Introduction
		Kashmir’s political ‘awakening’
		New Kashmir
		Quit Kashmir
		Kashmiri nationalism in power
		The parting of the ways
		Endnotes
		References
	4. Kashmiri Visions of Freedom: The Past and the Present
		Introduction
		Kashmiri understandings of freedom: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
		Varied universalisms and Kashmiri freedom: The decades of the 1930s and 1940s
		Freedom failed: Postcolonial Kashmir, 1947–53
		Plebiscite or autonomy: The changing discourse on freedom, 1960s–80s
		The cry for aazadi: Kashmir in the 1990s
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: POLITICS
	5. Azad Kashmir: Integral to India, Integrated into Pakistan, Lacking Integrity as an Autonomous Entity
		Introduction
		What Azad Kashmir comprises
		Azad Kashmir: Its creation and composition
		Azad Kashmir’s relationship with Pakistan
		Azad Kashmiris’ relationship with Indian J&K and overseas Pakistanis
		Internal politics
		Azad Kashmir’s economy and development opportunities
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	6. ‘Not Part of Kashmir, but of the Kashmir Dispute’: The Political Predicaments of Gilgit-Baltistan
		Introduction
		Before 1947
		After 1947: Deferred accession with Pakistan
		Struggling for political rights
		Fifth province of Pakistan, a separate nation, or a part of Kashmir?
		Recent developments: The Reform of 2009 and the China-Pak Economic Corridor
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	7: Law, Gender and Governance in Kashmir
		Introduction
		The (il)legality of Indian rule: Ethnicity, governance and  repression
		Law and governance in IJK
			Disturbed Areas Act and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
			Public Safety Act
			The judiciary in Kashmir
			Rape by security forces: Accountability and justice
				Kunan Poshpora
				Shopian
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	8. ‘Survival Is Now Our Politics’: Kashmiri Pandit Community Identity and the Politics of Homeland
		Introduction
		Political communities and political life in India
		A brief history of Kashmiri Pandit associations
		The Kashmiri Pandit migration
		Homecoming as patriotic imperative
		Panun Kashmir and the homeland resolution
		The discourse of recovery
		Provisional homecomings
		Interrogating the discourse of recovery
		Endnotes
		References
	9. Beyond the ‘Kashmir’ Meta-Narrative: Caste, Identities and the Politics of Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir
		Introduction
		Conflict politics and the elision of caste
		SCs in Jammu: Socio-economic location
		Native SCs: A village ethnography of two sub-regional groups
			SCs in Kanhal
			SCs in Danidhar
			Caste and conflict politics in Kanhal and Danidhar
		Balmikis and the politics of caste and conflict
		Conflict politics and PR rights
		Conclusion: Caste dynamics – from specific to general
		Endnotes
		References
	10. Contested Governance, Competing Nationalisms and Disenchanted Publics: Kashmir beyond Intractability?
		Introduction: Redefining resistance
		India’s first and only welcoming moments in the Valley: Seeds of alienation
		Post Abdullah-arrest Kashmir politics
		Tracing Kashmiri subaltern resistance: From raishumari to aazadi
		Rituals of resistance
		Kashmir beyond intractability?
		Endnotes
		References
Part III: REPRESENTATION
	11. Embedded Mystics: Writing Lal Ded and Nund Rishi into the Kashmiri Landscape
		Introduction
		The saints
		Historical context
		The sources
		Embedding the mystics into Kashmir
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	12. Producing Paradise: Kashmir’s Shawl Economy, the Quest for Authenticity and the Politics of Representation in Europe, c.1770–1870
		Introduction
		Producing desire: Kashmir and its shawls
		Producing difference: The political economy of shawl production
		Compromising authenticity
		Conclusion
		Endnotes
		References
	13. The Kashmiri as Muslim in Bollywood’s ‘New Kashmir films’
		Introduction
		Bollywood and Kashmir, Kashmir in Bollywood
		Who’s afraid of ‘Al’-? Or, seduced by jihad
		Indian Muslims/Kashmiri Muslims/good Muslims/bad Muslims
		Longing, loss, melancholia: Kashmir and the (Indian) viewer
		At the frontline of diverse wars
		Endnotes
		References
	14. The Witness of Poetry: Political Feeling in Kashmiri Poems
		Trauma and poetics
		Poetry and the landscape of memory
		‘Experience’ and the politics of nation formation
		Looking homewards: Poetry and/as displacement
		Endnotes
		References
Contributors
Index