Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir : between India and Pakistan / Nyla Ali Khan.
2010
HQ1744.J35 K43 2010
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Title
Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir : between India and Pakistan / Nyla Ali Khan.
Author
Khan, Nyla Ali, 1972-
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0230107648
9780230107649
9780230113527 (e-book)
9780230107649
9780230113527 (e-book)
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
HQ1744.J35 K43 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/6970954609045
Summary
"Since 1989, religious fundamentalism and exclusionary nationalism in Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir have generated political and social turmoil that has eroded the cultural syncretism that has long been part of the ethos and history of Kashmir. These forces are responsible for the silencing of dissenters, economic deprivation, lack of infrastructure, mass displacements, political anarchy, and repression of women. Historical Kashmiri culture inscribes a wide range of experiences, which centralizing institutions attempt to render invisible and homogeneous. Women in Kashmir, as in other postcolonial countries, are positioned in relation to their own class and cultural realities, their own histories, their sensitivity to the diversity of cultural traditions and to the questions and conflicts within them. They constantly grapple with the legacies of Sufi Islam, their own struggles not just with the devastating effects of Indian occupation and Pakistani infiltration, but also with the discourses of cultural nationalism and religious fundamentalism propagated in the valley. I position myself with reference to the West as well as with communities outside the West, so I speak with a complex awareness of and investment in representation.I analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed over time. The refusal to wallow in grief and a desire to deconstruct the Camelot-like atmosphere of that period impelled me to undertake this cross-disciplinary project regarding the political history, composite culture, literature of the state; the attempted relegation of Kashmiri women to the archives of memory, and their persistent endeavors to rise from the ashes of immolated identities. "--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-199) and index.
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Series
Comparative feminist studies series.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Conflicting Discourses on the Political Landscape of Jammu and Kashmir * Cultural Syncretism in Kashmir * Political Debacles * Militarization of the Landscape of Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir * Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender, Community, and Nationhood * Conclusion * Negotiating Necrophilia: An Afterword
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