Languages of Belonging

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Chitralekha Zutshi

页数:320

出版时间:2004-6

价格:CAD 49.26

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780195219395

图书标签:英文版历史religion政治politicsZutshi

Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history, and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in contrast, questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and Kashmiriyat by returning Kashmir to the mainstream of South Asian historiography. It examines the hundred-year impact of indirect colonial rule on Kashmirs class formation. It studies the uses (and abuses) made of Kashmirs political elites by the state. It looks at the responses of Kashmirs society to social and economic restructuring. It shows that while all these historical changes had a profound impact on the political culture of the Kashmir Valley, there is nothing very inevitable or quite definite about the 'political regionalism' and 'Islamic particularism' of this area. Using local language sources and every important archive, this major history of the formation of Kashmir shows precisely how the Kashmir Valley assumed the position it has come to occupy in postcolonial South Asia.

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That particular generation of scholars were so obsessed with the issue of regional (and religious) identities. Is it even always a legitimate, or worthwhile, question? | 2016.4.29, Raven

That particular generation of scholars were so obsessed with the issue of regional (and religious) identities. Is it even always a legitimate, or worthwhile, question? | 2016.4.29, Raven

That particular generation of scholars were so obsessed with the issue of regional (and religious) identities. Is it even always a legitimate, or worthwhile, question? | 2016.4.29, Raven

That particular generation of scholars were so obsessed with the issue of regional (and religious) identities. Is it even always a legitimate, or worthwhile, question? | 2016.4.29, Raven

That particular generation of scholars were so obsessed with the issue of regional (and religious) identities. Is it even always a legitimate, or worthwhile, question? | 2016.4.29, Raven