The Making Of Modern Kashmir

Author : Altaf Hussain Para
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429657344

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The Making of Modern Kashmir by Altaf Hussain Para Pdf

This book traces the roots of modern-day Kashmir and the role of Sheikh Abdullah in its making. As the most influential political figurehead in twentieth-century Kashmir, he played a crucial role in its transformation from a kingdom to a state in independent India. He was enigmatic and complex, to say the least. Following his meteoric rise, he dominated the political scene for more than 50 years, with enduring impact. The volume presents a keen analysis of pre-Independence events which led to the emergence of a controversial and confused identity of the region. It also looks at other major themes in the political life of Kashmir, including the formation of the Muslim Conference, the plebiscite movement and the Kashmir Accord. A major intervention in the political life of South Asia, this book presents an inside-view of the history of modern Kashmir through the life and times of Sheikh Abdullah. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, history, and modern South Asia.

Author : Chitralekha Zutshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107181977

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Kashmir by Chitralekha Zutshi Pdf

This collection of essays discusses the less well-known aspects and areas of Kashmir on the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence.

Author : Prithvi Nath Kaul Bamzai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 8185880344

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Culture and Political History of Kashmir by Prithvi Nath Kaul Bamzai Pdf

Author : Ajit Bhattacharjea
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : 8174366717

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Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah by Ajit Bhattacharjea Pdf

Sheikh Abdullah: Tragic Hero of Kashmir is the first comprehensive, well-documented account of the life of the charismatic leader, the Lion of Kashmir, who contributed crucially to the making of modern India in terms of territory and more importantly to its founding ideology of secularism. The story begins well before independence. Kashmir was the scene of a distinctive political transformation in the late 1930s. In contrast to rise of the Muslim League in much of the subcontinent - which was to lead to partition - the most popular party in the valley turned away from communal politics and embraced secularism. On 11 June 1939, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was successful in changing the name of the party he was leading from Kashmir Muslim Conference to National Conference, and invited all to join it. Backed by Nehru's friendship, Abdullah rose to become the first popular Prime Minister of the State, but also the target of conservative and communal forces in India. His demand that the pledge of special status for the State in the accession documents be honoured was described as anti-national, even pro-Pakistani. As revealed in the book, Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel offered to resign on the issue. The letters he and Nehru wrote to Gandhi explaining their differences make fascinating reading. The intrigue that led to Abdullah's downfall and arrest on 8 August 1953, is well documented as is the role of the Home Ministry's Intelligence Bureau. The elaborate conspiracy case it built up was belatedly rejected by Nehru himself. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, the author takes us through Abdullah's long, tragic periods of detention until he was persuaded to return to Jammu and Kashmir as Chief Minister. He demonstrated his continuing popularity by winning an election before his death in 1982.

Author : Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520954540

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Body of Victim, Body of Warrior by Cabeiri deBergh Robinson Pdf

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights—a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees’ positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion.

Author : Inshah Malik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319953304

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Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics by Inshah Malik Pdf

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to take control of their lives and press for change. Despite experiencing isolating political conditions, Kashmiri women do not internalize their supposed inferiority. The author shows that women’s struggles against patriarchy are at the heart of a very complex historical resistance to the Indian rule.

Author : MJ Akbar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788193600962

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Kashmir: Behind the Vale by MJ Akbar Pdf

MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976 and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian. MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993 and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the party’s national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi. His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: India: The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; Kashmir: Behind the Vale; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays.

Author : Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350345812

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The Missionary and the Maharajas by Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe Pdf

Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion in early 20th century India through his unconventional methods of “educating” Kashmiris and, through them, changing the social order of a society steeped in what he saw as old superstitions. He was a man of contradictions: an ordained Priest and a violent boxer; a supposed educator who supported imperialism; a missionary who made very few converts and a friend of Kashmir's political reformers. He made enemies of the Hindu Establishment, who described him as an 'exceedingly a bad man' but earned the respect of two successive Hindu Maharajas, as well as the Muslim leader who succeeded them. Written by Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, grandson of Cecil Tindale-Biscoe, The Missionary and the Maharajas explores Cecil Tindale-Biscoe's trip to India and attempts to convert Hindu and Muslims to Christianity, as well as his medical missions, which his grandson finds had little success. The result is an insight into British imperialism from the perspective of someone who benefitted from it.

Author : Rekha Chowdhary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317414049

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Jammu and Kashmir by Rekha Chowdhary Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir. Through an internal perspective, it charts the shift in the Kashmiri response towards the Centre and offers a detailed examination of the background in which separatist politics took roots in Kashmir, and the way it changed its nature in the militancy and post-militancy period. The volume shows how separatism and armed militancy, as manifest in the Valley in the late 1980s, (though augmented by external factors) have been internal responses to the changing nature of Kashmiri identity politics. It explores how the ideas central to Indian nationalist politics — especially democracy and secularism — echoed in Kashmir and were instrumental in dismantling the feudal structure and negotiating an autonomous space within the framework of asymmetrical federalism. Seamlessly blending facts and incisive analyses, this book raises new questions about the nature of conflict and contestation in the region. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of Indian politics, especially on Jammu and Kashmir, and sociology, as well as government bodies, think tanks and the interested general reader.

Author : Gurucharan Gollerkeri,Renuka Raja Rao
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527561410

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The Making of India, 1947-2022 by Gurucharan Gollerkeri,Renuka Raja Rao Pdf

India stands as a beacon of hope and resilience in Asia, as a thriving democracy, a secular republic, and a growing economic power. This book captures the contributions of important people, events, and institutions that have shaped India in its 75 years as an independent country. Each entry is a captivating stand-alone story which traces the genesis and importance of the subject's contribution. Sharp insights, analyses, and questions of “what if?” pepper the entries, prompting the reader to think deeper. Together, they represent the kaleidoscope that is modern India, making up a fascinating mosaic of the myriad influences that have made India a liberal democracy and a plural society. This book would be of interest primarily to academics, scholars, and university students, but especially to young people, civil service aspirants, and researchers who would find a compendium of this kind useful in garnering a nuanced understanding of the history of independent India.

Author : Arundhati Roy,Pankaj Mishra,Hilal Bhatt,Angana P. Chatterji,Tariq Ali
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844677351

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Kashmir by Arundhati Roy,Pankaj Mishra,Hilal Bhatt,Angana P. Chatterji,Tariq Ali Pdf

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.

Author : Iqbal Chand Malhotra,M. Maroof Raza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : India
ISBN : 9390358620

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Kashmir's Untold Story by Iqbal Chand Malhotra,M. Maroof Raza Pdf

Author : Sir Walter Roper Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015008270988

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The Valley of Kashmír by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence Pdf

Author : M. Raymond Izarali,Dalbir Ahlawat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000376623

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Terrorism, Security and Development in South Asia by M. Raymond Izarali,Dalbir Ahlawat Pdf

This book provides a rich analysis of the actors and organizations to reflect on the antecedents and trajectories of terrorism and insurgency in South Asia, and the different countermeasures adopted by the countries to deal with the security and developmental challenges. South Asia is a complex geography that has been both a victim and a playing field for indigenous insurgencies, and domestic and transnational terrorist movements. The contributors to this volume explore how this situation has posed serious challenges to the sovereignty of the states, to national and human security, and to the socioeconomic fabric of the communities, and to the ethnic and religious cohesion. The book provides detailed studies of country cases on terrorism, security, and insurgencies, and it underlines the national, regional, and global implications of the threats that emanate from this region. Presenting an opportunity to diversify away from a Western-centric focus on terrorism and security, this book will be valuable to researchers in political science, criminology, defense and security studies, and to policy makers and think tanks.

Author : Haley Duschinski,Mona Bhan,Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031285202

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The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies by Haley Duschinski,Mona Bhan,Cabeiri deBergh Robinson Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexities of regional state formations, national power assertions and geopolitical competitions. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook examine diverse people’s struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability in relation to the colonial-era state consolidations, postcolonial military occupations, interstate wars, intrastate armed conflicts and cold war and post-cold war politics that have shaped and transformed social and political identities in the region. Contributors chart out varied and bold new directions by attending to local constellations of situated knowledges and practices through which people living in different parts of the disputed region make sense of the conditions and contingencies of their political lives. The handbook further initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship and undermined the pursuit of shared intellectual and political projects across physical and epistemological boundaries.