Author : Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0816653569
A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations.
Author : Walter R. Lawrence
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : 9788120616301
(Reprint London 1895 edn.)
Author : Chitralekha Zutshi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0190990465
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.
Author : Farhana Qazi
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2016
Category : India
ISBN : 9788172210762
Author : Chitralekha Zutshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181976
This collection of essays discusses the less well-known aspects and areas of Kashmir on the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence.
Author : Rakhshan Rizwan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000071529
Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings -- memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane -- published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India or in the diaspora. It offers a new perspective on these works by analyzing them within the framework of human rights discourse and advocacy. Literature has been an important medium for promoting the rights of marginalized Kashmiri subjects within Indian-occupied Kashmir, successfully putting Kashmir back on the global map and shifting discussion about Kashmir from the political board rooms to the international English-language book market. In discussing human rights advocacy through literature, this book also effects a radical change of perspective by highlighting positive rights (to enjoy certain things) rather than negative ones (to be spared certain things). Kashmiri life narratives deploy a language of pleasure rather than of physical pain to represent the state of having and losing rights.
Author : Basharat Peer
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8184002238
Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir—angrier, more violent, more hopeless—was never far away. In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories and the people which had haunted him. In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and its people. Here are stories of a young man’s initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a mother who watches her son forced to hold an exploding bomb; a poet who finds religion when his entire family is killed. Of politicians living in refurbished torture chambers and former militants dreaming of discotheques; of idyllic villages rigged with landmines, temples which have become army bunkers, and ancient sufi shrines decapitated in bomb blasts. And here is finally the old story of the return home—and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it. Lyrical, spare, gutwrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a stunning book and an unforgettable portrait of Kashmir in war.
Author : Nukhbah Taj Langah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000422577
This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.
Author : Shakoor Rather
Publisher : Speaking Tiger Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789389958867
Description Srinagar, summer of 2008: the chinar trees are shedding leaves, outdated matadors are still polluting the streets and checkpoints with men in army fatigue dot the city. Samar, a college student, is head over heels in love with Rabiya, his batchmate. Secret rendezvous in matadors, campus corridors and at the city's historical sites help them to get to know each other better. But will their love survive the unending curfews and their families' opposing political allegiances? Sheikh Mubarak, Samar's neighbour, is a famed metal craftsman stuck in a loveless marriage. He is further distanced from his unsympathetic wife, Naziya, when he loses his cherished pregnant cow on a curfewed night. Will their marriage survive the arrival of Rosaline, a tourist from New York? Sana, Mubarak and Naziya's five-year-old daughter, is best friends with Pintoji, the neighbourhood simpleton. Both chase their little dreams together with a wide-eyed curiosity, ignoring the adults who frequently indulge in the stonethrowing game. But what happens when Pintoji ventures out without a care during a curfew? Delicate and sensitive, Life in the Clock Tower Valley is an unusual debut novel that travels between Kashmir's pristine past, its grievous present and alwaysuncertain future, giving us an insider's view to everyday life and emotions in the conflict-ridden valley
Author : Malik Sajad
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007513739
A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.
