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Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation

Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation

Kanjwal, Hafsa

Paperback

Series: South Asia in Motion

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1503636038
ISBN13: 9781503636033
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is an integral part of India. The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was made integral to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri, Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended consequences of Bakshi's state-building policies in the context of India's colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government tailored its policies to integrate Kashmir's Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension, corruption, and political repression.

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