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Kashmir and the future of South Asia / edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal.

Contributor(s): Bose, Sugata [editor] | Jalal, Ayesha [editor].
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia Series. Language: eng.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021Description: xii, 150 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780367622398.Subject(s): Nationalism -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir -- History | Autonomy and independence movements | Nationalism | Politics and government | Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Politics and government | Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements | Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 954.6035 Summary: "This book uses an innovative people-centred 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"
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"This book uses an innovative people-centred 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"

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