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Sheikh Abdullah-A Biography
Sir Charles Cunningham Watson the Political Secretary of the Viceroy made the following interesting observation in his own handwriting on the file regarding appointment of Lt.Col.Colvin as Prime Minister of Kashmir: "I am definitely of the opinion that if Col.Colvin is to be of full value both to the Govt of India and the Durbar he must not draw less than Rs.4000/pm. Otherwise it will be said in the bazars that he is a cheap figurehead imported by the Maharajah on the advice of the Kashmiri Pandits. This last is true; he must not start with any other handicap." This makes clear the reason for the appointment of Col.Colvin as the Prime Minister of the Maharaja and is referred to in Chapter 18...
TOPICAL POEMS OF MEHJOOR KASHMIRI
Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor (1887-1952) popularly known as Mehjoor Kashmiri was born in the village of Matrigam in South Kashmir. When just thirteen years old he completed the study of “Panj Ganj –e-Nizami “ of the Persian poet Nizami and was declared to be proficient in Persian by his teachers. He started writing poems in the Kashmiri language at an early age and in 1930s was recognized as one of the greatest romantic poets of Kashmir. A few years before his death following the tribal invasion of Kashmir in 1947 he came out of seclusion and wrote poems on subjects that were of importance to the inhabitants of the State at that time. Though a devout Muslim the ideas expressed in his poem “AZADI” or “FREEDOM” are strikingly similar to those in the Turkish communist poet Nazim Hekmat’s poem “A Sad State of Freedom”. The topical poems of Mehjoor .provide an insight into the conditions prevailing in Kashmir at the time of the departure of the British from the Subcontinent.
SHORT STORIES OF AKHTAR MOHIUDDIN
Akhtar Mohiuddin (1928-2001) is indisputably the finest raconteur of stories in the Kashmiri language. He has received the highest literary awards of India for his writings in the Kashmiri language including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1958, The Kala Kendra Shield in 1975 and the Padam Shri in 1968. The five stories in this book record the events in Kashmir at crucial turning points in the checkered history of this State and because of their human interest are bound to keep a thoughtful reader spellbound and unable to leave them unfinished once he starts reading them.
MUSINGS AND RESONANCES
The Koran is the holy book of the Muslims and in my view it is not proper to relate it to science which is built on a framework of theories that are predictive rather than fundamental. However when reflecting or musing on its verses I have found certain resonances with the current scientific insights about our world Some such musings , reflections and resonances are proffered for the interested reader. These are my thoughts and should not be construed to be anything else. They are absolutely not intended to be explanations or explications of Quranic verses. I have written translations of some verses of the Holy Quran (translations are no substitute for the original) and then mentioned some scientific views about some subject.. Some readers like myself may find a resonance between them ,others may find none.
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature
Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language literature after 1947 to cover such a wide range, including voices from the cultural margins of the nation like Kashmiri and Manipuri, that of women alongside those of minority and marginalised communities. In examining the politics of the writing especially in relation to concerns like nationhood, caste, tradition and modernity, postcoloniality, gender issues and religious conflict, the book goes beyond the declared ideology of each writer to get at covert significations pointing to widely shared but often unacknowledged biases. The book is deeply analytical but lucid and jargon-free and, to those unfamiliar with the writers, it introduces a new keenness into Indian literary criticism to make its objects exciting.
Imagining Kashmir
6 Fractured Tales and Colonial Traumas: Disfigured Stories in Kashmiri Short Fiction -- Aft erword: Ending the Trauma: What Can Be Done? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Kashmir in India and Pakistan Policies
This book examines the complex political structures of Pakistan and India that determine both the Kashmir conflict and the geostrategic environment underpinning it. Providing comprehensive knowledge on both historical and contemporary dynamics of Indo-Pakistani policies and relations, this book combines a brief history of the Kashmir conflict with thorough politological analysis. Analyses range from strategic dynamics in the aftermath of bifurcation of Indian-administered Kashmir, to ideologically motivated and state-led narratives, security dilemmas, regional and geopolitical dynamics. The book ultimately aims to investigates which policies India and Pakistan develop vis-à-vis the territor...
Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late 1980s. In existing scholarship, ideas of territoriality, state sovereignty, and national security have dominated the discourses on the Kashmir conflict. This book, in contrast, places Kashmir and Kashmiris at the center of historical debate and investigates a broad range of sources to illuminate a century of political players and social structures on both sides of divided Kashmir and in the wider Kashmiri diaspora. In the process, it broadens the contours of Kashmir's postcolonial and resistance history, complicates the meaning of Kashmiri identity, and reveals Kashmiris' myriad imaginings of freedom. It asserts that 'Kashmir' has emerged as a political imaginary in postcolonial era, a vision that grounds Kashmiris in their negotiations for rights not only in India and Pakistan, but also in global political spaces.
Colonizing Kashmir
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...
Sheikh Abdullah
The story of Sheikh Abdullah's life is a love story. It is the story of a man who loved Kashmir and "whose entire life in the words of Shamim Ahmed Shamim, one of Kashmirs most perspicacious journalists "was an expression of this love." It is a story of his trial and tribulations, his successes and failures, of storms that he weathered and halcyon days. Above all it is a story that deserves to be read and reread for its sheer human interest by all who have a place in their heart for the blighted paradise that is Kashmir.
