@article{1457307,
      recid = {1457307},
      author = {Khan, Nyla Ali,},
      title = {Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir : between India and  Pakistan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (234 pages) :},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1457307},
}