The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity

Front Cover
N. Khan
Springer, Aug 6, 2012 - Political Science - 262 pages
A cross-disciplinary anthology on contemporary Kashmir by academics from Jammu and Kashmir, the first such volume to appear. The book offers a panorama of key cultural concerns of Jammu and Kashmir today, incorporating analysis of military, cultural, religious, and social aspects of the society and polity.
 

Contents

Preface
Design by Integra Software Services
Constructions of Kashmiri Identity Within
The Voice of the Past Misconstrued
Printed in the United States of America
Cultural Syncretism and Deconstruction of a Monolithic
Some Kashmiri
Conceptualization of Sovereignty Democratic
Political Assertion of Kashmiri Identity
Kashmir in the Indian Project of Nationalism
Sociological Dimensions of Conflict Insurgency
Representations of Knowledge and Knowledge
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2012)

NOOR AHMAD BABA Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Kashmir University REKHA CHOWDHARY Professor of Political Science at the University of Jammu BASHIR AHMAD DABLA Professor and former chair, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Kashmir, Srinagar RATTAN LAL HANGLOO Chair of the Department of History and Chief Proctor at the University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India MOHAMMAD ISHAQ KHAN Former Professor, Head of the History Department, and Shaikhu'l-'Alam Chair at Kashmir University NYLA ALI KHAN Teaches at the University of Oklahoma NEERJA MATTOO Professor emeritus and former Principal and Head of the Department of English at the Government College for Women, Maulana Azad Road, Srinagar, Kashmir HAMEEDA NAEEM Associate Professor of English, University of Kashmir, Srinagar GULL MOHAMMAD WANI Senior Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar M. H. ZAFFAR Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar