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  • A Desolation Called Peace

    Voices from Kashmir

    by Ather Zia, Javaid Iqbal Bhat ...
    The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and India, echoes of which continue to be heard even today. At the time, Sheikh Abdullah was the uncrowned king of Kashmir; today, his grave is under security lest it be vandalized. What accounts for this change in attitude?A Desolation Called Peace provides important insights to understand the political ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Resisting Disappearance

    Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir

    by Ather Zia, Piya Chatterjee ...
    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) keep public attention focused on the 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiri men disappeared by ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

    Edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, Cynthia Mahmood ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    The last decade has been a transformative period in Kashmir, the hotly contested and densely militarized border territory located high in the Himalayan mountains between India and Pakistan. Suppressed and unheard, Kashmiri political aspirations were subordinated to larger geopolitical concerns—by opposing governments laying claim to Kashmir, by security experts promoting bilateral peace ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

    Edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, Cynthia Mahmood ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    The last decade has been a transformative period in Kashmir, the hotly contested and densely militarized border territory located high in the Himalayan mountains between India and Pakistan. Suppressed and unheard, Kashmiri political aspirations were subordinated to larger geopolitical concerns—by opposing governments laying claim to Kashmir, by security experts promoting bilateral peace ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

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  • Colonizing Kashmir

    State-building under Indian Occupation

    by Hafsa Kanjwal ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was made ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • India-Pakistan in War and Peace

    by J. N. Dixit ...
    As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, over the following half-century, they have fought ... Read more

    $321.55 CAD

  • Languages of Belonging

    Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir

    by Chitralekha Zutshi ...
    Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Until My Freedom Has Come

    The New Intifada in Kashmir

    by Sanjay Kak ...
    The pieces in this volume voice the rage and helplessness sweeping through the Kashmir Valley while offering rare insights into the lives of those caught in the crossfire. This book is a timely collection of the most exciting writing that has recently emerged from within Kashmir, and about it.Sanjay Kak is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom, 2007), ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Pakistan

    Origins, Identity and Future

    by Pervez Hoodbhoy ...
    This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many millennia ago to the circumstances and impulses that gave birth to the very first state in history founded upon religious identity. He documents ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Conflict Studies

    From Alienation to Alignment : A situational analysis of Kashmir crisis

    by Parul Parihar ...
    This book is a sociological attempt to envisage the cultural and regional disparities eventually giving way to relational deprivation amongst the people of the region – Kashmir and the imbroglio that followed, the decades to come. It is an aesthetic exploration of the regional beauty and the politics of ethnic diversity that culminated in the displacement crises and vicious resurfacings ... Read more

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  • Deadly Impasse

    Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century

    by Sumit Ganguly ...
    What ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship? Rivalry between the two states has persisted since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and despite negotiations, four wars and multiple crises, India and Pakistan remain locked in a long-standing dispute. Evaluating relations from 1999 through to 2009, Sumit Ganguly seeks to understand this troubled relationship and why efforts at peace ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

    Edited by Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book uses an innovative people-centered approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester."Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal wars of partition that mark the South Asian experience. Chapters sensitively bring Kashmiri voices to ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD