Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018. - xii, 338p.

On the Seventieth anniversary of Indian Independence, partition, and the creation of Pakistan, this ground-breaking collection brings together 14 cutting edge scholarly essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. While keeping the political dimensions of the dispute over the territory in focus, these innovative essays branch out from the high politics of the conflict to consider less well-known aspects and areas of Kashmir.

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Part I: History
1. To 'Tear the Mask off the Face of the Past': Archaeology and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir
2. Contesting Urban Space
3. The Rise and Fall of New Kashmir
4. Kashmiri Visions of Freedom
PART II: POLITICS
5. Azad Kashmir
6. 'Not Part of Kashmir, but of the Kashmir Dispute'
7. Law, Gender and Governance in Kashmir
8. 'Survival Is Now Our Politics'
9. Beyond the 'Kashmir' Meta-Narrative
10. Contested Governance, Competing Nationalisms Disenchanted Publics
PART III: REPRESENTATION
11. Embedded Mystics
12. Producing Paradise
13. The Kashmiri as Muslim in Bollywood's New Kashmir films'
14. The Witness of Poetry

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