A History Of Kashmir Political Social Cultural From The Earliest Times To The Present Day
A History Of Kashmir Political Social Cultural From The Earliest Times To The Present Day

Author: Prithivi Nath Kaul Bamzai

Publisher:

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 9788183390378

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Kashmir has been in the news for over a quarter of a Century. hat is special about this State and why and how has the Kashmir Question come to dominate the relations between Indian and Pakistan: these and other allied questions are explained in detail in this revised and enlarged edition.Apart from this, Kashmir has a unique distinction of having the only history written in Sanskrit from the earliest times. Many baffling problem about certain events and their chronology in Indian history, have been solved by it. As such no student of Indian History can afford to ignore its deep study.

The Making of Modern Kashmir
The Making of Modern Kashmir

Author: Altaf Hussain Para

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 042965734X

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This book traces the roots of modern-day Kashmir and the role of Sheikh Abdullah in its making. As the most influential political figurehead in twentieth-century Kashmir, he played a crucial role in its transformation from a kingdom to a state in independent India. He was enigmatic and complex, to say the least. Following his meteoric rise, he dominated the political scene for more than 50 years, with enduring impact. The volume presents a keen analysis of pre-Independence events which led to the emergence of a controversial and confused identity of the region. It also looks at other major themes in the political life of Kashmir, including the formation of the Muslim Conference, the plebiscite movement and the Kashmir Accord. A major intervention in the political life of South Asia, this book presents an inside-view of the history of modern Kashmir through the life and times of Sheikh Abdullah. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, history, and modern South Asia.

Kashmir
Kashmir

Author: Chitralekha Zutshi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107181976

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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.

Historical Title, Self-Determination and the Kashmir Question
Historical Title, Self-Determination and the Kashmir Question

Author: Fozia Nazir Lone

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9004359990

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In Historical Title, Self-Determination and the Kashmir Question Fozia Nazir Lone offers a critical re-examination of the Kashmir question. Through an interdisciplinary approach and international law perspective, she analyses political practices and the substantive international law on the restoration of historical title and self-determination. The book analytically examines whether Kashmir was a State at any point in history; the effect of the 1947 occupation by India/Pakistan; the international law implications of the constitutional incorporation of this territory and the ongoing human rights violations; whether Kashmiris are entitled to restore their historical title through the exercise of self-determination; and whether the Kashmir question could be resolved with the formation of international strategic alliance to curb danger of spreading terrorism in Kashmir.

The Making of Early Kashmir
The Making of Early Kashmir

Author: Shonaleeka Kaul

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 019909330X

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What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir’s sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

Kashmir’s Contested Pasts
Kashmir’s Contested Pasts

Author: Chitralekha Zutshi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-07-09

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0199089361

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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each other to imagine Kashmir as far more than simply an unsettled territory or a tourist paradise. By offering a historically grounded reflection on the memories, narrative practices, and institutional contexts that have informed, and continue to inform, imaginings of Kashmir and its past, the book suggests new ways of understanding the debates over history, territory, identity, and sovereignty that shape contemporary South Asia.