Kashmir

Kashmir
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1844677354

Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self- determination continues to be brutally suppressed. Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people.

Azadi

Azadi
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 164259380X

The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir
Author: Haley Duschinski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 081224978X

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir considers the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation of Kashmir and the ways in which Kashmiri youth are drawing on the region's history of armed rebellion to reimagine the freedom struggle in the twenty-first century.

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
Author: Sugata Bose
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000318842

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 the fore to examine Kashmir in the national discourses of India and Pakistan, resistance in the Kashmiri imagination and the Kashmir conflict in a global context. The book foregrounds how the space of Kashmir as a cultural, historical and political sphere persists and continues to haunt the postcolonial national present as the people of Kashmir and their cultural, literary and artistic productions cannot be contained within the regnant paradigms of the nations across which the region is partitioned. Additionally, the book explores how long-term resolution would demand engagement with historical forces, political actors and social formations that exceed the nation-state. An important contribution to the study of this troubled region, this book will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern South Asian history and politics as well as comparative politics and international relations.

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
Author: Malik Sajad
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007513739

A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.

Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition

Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
Author: Shahla Hussain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108901131

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.

Independent Kashmir

Independent Kashmir
Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526156156

Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent. Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Maharaja Hari Singh’s leadership in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. As tensions continue to rise following government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?

Kashmir and the Sikhs

Kashmir and the Sikhs
Author: Anūpa Siṅgha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2007
Genre: Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN:

The Freedom Movement in Kashmir (1931-1940) deals with an important and formative phase of Kashmir freedom struggle. This is a comprehensive account of the vital developments that occurred during the crucial period of Kashmir political history that it focuses on. The extensive documentation and referencing used in it make it a very credible source on this crucial phase of Kashmiri freedom struggle. It covers important themes that include a historical perspective of the formation of the state of Jammu & Kashmir as it evolved under the Dogra dynasty. It also covers, ably and extensively, the nature and the discriminative character of the regime particularly in relation to the certain sections of the state s population. A useful account of the various socio-religious and political reform movement that contributed to the social and political awakening of The Freedom Movement in Kashmir (1931-1940) deals with an important and formative phase of Kashmir freedom struggle. This is acomprehensive account of the vital developments that occurred during the crucial period of Kashmir political history that it focuses on. The extensive documentation and referencing used in it make it a very credible source on this crucial phase of Kashmiri freedom struggle. It covers important themes that include a historical perspective of the formation of the state of Jammu & Kashmir as it evolved under the Dogra dynasty. It also covers, ably and extensively, the nature and the discriminative character of the regime particularly in relation to the certain sections of the state s population. A useful account of the various socio-religious and political reform movement that contributed to the social and political awakening of Kashmir is also given. Most importantly, the book gives a detailed account of the nature and the development of the freedom movement, the process of its secularisation and the way it shaped up the regime s response both in the positive and negative terms. Finally it examines the process of transforming the Muslim Conference into the National Conference.In sum, the book has been an important source on a vital phase of Kashmiri freedom struggle and would continue to be useful for any serious student of Kashmir politics and history.

Paradise on Fire

Paradise on Fire
Author: Abdul Hakeem
Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0953676862

Paradise on Fire is the story of the struggle for national liberation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, spearheaded by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. This political biography of Kashmir’s leading freedom fighter reveals the true horror of the Kashmir dispute, the dynamics of this historical struggle for self-determination, and Geelani’s huge contribution in leading this search for liberation.