<p>Product Description      The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslimsliving together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togethernessis rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the readerto the awful conditions of Hindu refugees as they began tolive in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.The Muslims back home in Kashmir have their terrible demonsto deal with. While Hindus as migrants are cut off from rootsand long for home, Muslims are in a unprecedented messcaught up in the tangles of violence and counter violence.The lives of both are in tatters. Only hope seems to be thememory of togetherness, which may heal.      About the Author      Rattan Lal ShantDr. Javaid Iqbal Bhat is an academic, writer and a cultural critic. He teaches at the Post Graduate Department of English, South Campus, University of Kashmir. Bhat has done his PhD from Ohio University, USA. He is the author of books Mourning Memories: From Amarnath Row to the Year of Dead Eyes (2017), Scars of Summer (2017), Covering a Decade (2007-2017): Reflections on the Kashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs (2019) and Calm before the Storm (2021). He has co-edited A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins). He has published papers in, among others, journals like Third Text and Folklore. He writes columns for the newspapers Greater Kashmir, Daily Times (Lahore).Rattan Lal Shaant was born in Srinagar in 1938. He did BA from University of Kashmir and MA and DPhil from Allahabad University. From 1959 to 1996 he taught Hindi and Kashmiri languages and literature in different colleges of Kashmir and for a short time in University of Kashmir.</p>

Rupture: Stories on the Sorrows of Kashmir

Shant, Rattan Lal

Bhat, Javaid Iqbal

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford University Press

The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and India, echoes of which continue to be heard even today. At the time, Sheikh Abdullah was the uncrowned king of Kashmir; today, his grave is under security lest it be vandalized. What accounts for this change in attitude? A Desolation Called Peace provides important insights to understand the political aspirations of the people of Kashmir and the change in their perceptions since Independence. Written and edited by Kashmiri authors, this collection of ethnographic essays explores the desire for 'azadi' as a historical and indigenous demand. While the accounts traverse the period from before 1947 to the momentous time of 1989 when militancy began, the essays illustrate how postcolonial politics has impinged on Kashmiri lives and aspirations, thus paving the way for the intractable dispute of today. This anthology of deeply felt essays will enable an understanding of Kashmir beyond the hackneyed tropes that portray the issue reductively as a proxy war, terrorism or a simple law and order situation.

A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir

History

World

Harper India

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