TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanjwal,Hafsa
TI  - Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation, 1953-1963 
T2  - South Asia in motion
SN  - 9781503636040
AV  - DS485.K27 K355 2023
U1  - 954/.6 23/eng/20220923
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Bakhshi, Ghulam Mohammad,
KW  - Muslims
KW  - India
KW  - Jammu and Kashmir
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Administration
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Jammu and Kashmir (India)
KW  - 1947-
KW  - Inde
KW  - Histoire
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Genealogies of colonial occupation and state-building : becoming Khalid-i-Kashmir -- Narrating normalization : media, propaganda and foreign policy amid Cold War politics -- Producing and promoting paradise : tourism, cinema and the desire for Kashmir -- Developing dependency : economic planning, financial integration and corruption -- Shaping subjectivities : education, secularism and its discontent -- Jashn-e-Kashmir : patronage and the institutionalization of Kashmiri culture -- The state of emergency : state repression, political dissent, and the struggle for self-determination
N2  - "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 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 a colonial occupation in a moment of Indian decolonization. She reveals how the state government tailored its policies to empower Kashmir's Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension, corruption, and political repression. Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes India's occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question the sovereignty claims of India, as well as the modern nation-state"--
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