Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Map 1. Pre-partition Jammu and Kashmir; Map 2. Contemporary Kashmir; Introduction: new directions in the study of Kashmir Chitralekha Zutshi; Part I. History: 1. To 'tear the mask off the face of the past': archaeology and politics in Jammu and Kashmir Mridu Rai; 2. Contesting urban space: shrine culture and the discourse on Kashmiri Muslim identities and protest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chitralekha Zutshi; 3. The rise and fall of new Kashmir Andrew Whitehead; 4. Kashmiri visions of freedom: the past and the present Shahla Hussain; Part II. Politics: 5. Azad Kashmir: integral to India, integrated into Pakistan, lacking integrity as an autonomous entity Christopher Snedden; 6. 'Not part of Kashmir, but of the Kashmir dispute': the political predicaments of Gilgit-Baltistan Martin Sökefeld; 7. Law, gender and governance in Kashmir Seema Kazi; 8. 'Survival is now our politics': Kashmiri Pandit community identity and the politics of homeland Haley Duschinski; 9. Beyond the 'Kashmir' meta-narrative: caste, identities and the politics of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir Mohita Bhatia; 10. Contested governance, competing nationalisms and disenchanted publics: Kashmir beyond intractability? Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay; Part III. Representation: 11. Embedded mystics: writing Lal Ded and Nund Rishi into the Kashmiri landscape Dean Accardi; 12. Producing paradise: Kashmir's shawl economy, the quest for authenticity and the politics of representation in Europe, c.1770–1870 Vanessa Chishti; 13. The Kashmiri as Muslim in Bollywood's 'new Kashmir films' Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 14. The witness of poetry: political feeling in Kashmiri poems Suvir Kaul; Notes on contributors; Index.

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

About the Author

Chitralekha Zutshi is James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Her research and writing explore the intersections among religious affiliations, regional identities, nationalism, and historical thought and practice in South Asia. She has written widely on these themes in the context of Kashmir and is the author of Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir (2003/2004) and Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination (2014).