Languages of Belonging
Islam and Political Culture in Kashmir
April 2004
9781850656944
312pp
Temporarily out of stock
April 2004
9781850657002
312pp
Description
Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural identity. This text questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and ‘Kashmiriyat’.
‘Languages of Belonging is a quantum leap forward in Kashmir studies and will make one of the best histories of “regional” identities and economies in India yet produced.’ — Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, Cambridge University
Author(s)
Chitralekha Zutsi is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.
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