Serena Hussain - Society and Politics of Jammu and Kashmir

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Serena Hussain

Society and Politics of Jammu and Kashmir

1st ed. 2021

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For more than seventy years a bloody conflict has smouldered in Kashmir, its truths mostly obscured by broad brushstrokes that portray it as an issue between India and Pakistan. This new collection vigorously contests this, bringing together diverse points of view on the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state. In reprising the complexity of this region, it marks it as special and shows us where hope might lie in the future.

Sanjay Kak, Award-Winning Filmmaker and Writer

Examining Jammu & Kashmirs complex history and the many ruptures in its past and present, this book offers diverse perspectives, providing a rich addition to the existing scholarship on the region. By bringing together a variety of voices and themes on one platform, it seeks to bridge the disconnect between two sides of the LoC and also offers nuanced understanding of inter-regional contestations.

Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor, Kashmir Times

Kashmir is one of the worlds least understood conflicts. In this critically important volume, Serena Hussain has brought together a remarkable range of voices covering a broad range of topics. Its incisive and insightful chapters present nuanced perspectives making this book essential reading on Kashmir.

David Barsamian, Director of Alternative Radio

The multiple contestations and discourses about Kashmir - varying from political to cultural - find needed voices in the volume that takes us beyond the familiar Indo-Pakistani formulations over this disputed region connecting the Sub-continent with Central Asia. As the contributions by these predominantly Kashmiri authors suggest, identitarian politics with all its subtleties, remains the focal point necessitating a more grassroots based approach to the resolution of one of the most severely taxing issues in world politics.

Professor Iftikhar Malik, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

This interesting collection, covers diverse but important topics relating to Jammu and Kashmir understood in its widest territorial form. Primarily including scholars who originate from the region itself, and from both sides of the contested border, it offers important insights into the disputed territory.

Professor Katharine Adeney, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

This book is dedicated to the displaced and dispersed, whose land was snatched, homes were drowned and graves destroyed. It is for those cut in two by barbed wires, shelled, shot at and set ablaze. It is dedicated to the disappeared, the blinded and the broken; to the massacred, kidnapped and betrayed.