Download or read book Islam Women and Violence in Kashmir written by Nyla Ali Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy.
Download or read book Islam Women Violence in Kashmir written by Nyla Ali Khan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the first time a Kashmiri women rises above herself and her unfortunately limited role (particularly in these last two decades of violence, destruction and mayhem) and attempts to voice her opinion so emphatically. You will come to clearly understand through Nyla Khan's instructive style that a journey into Kashmir symbolizes a strange exaltation that is an undefinable quest but, like a torrential rainstorm, both cleansing and destructive. Agha Ashraf Ali (historian and veteran educator) Sadly, Kashmir has been captive, during the past sixty years, in the making of the myths of origin of India and Pakistan. Even more sadly, it now seems unable to resist the birth of a new creation myth of its own, which promises to replicate the efforts of its tormentors faithfully. Once a community experiences the trauma of state-formation at its expense, its capacity to envision a different kind of political arrangement weakens. Happily, the myth may not have yet gelled in Kashmir. This is where Nyla Ali Khan comes in. Ashis Nandy (political psychologist and sociologist of science)
Download or read book Islam Women and the Violence in Kashmir written by Nyla Ali Khan and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces how escalating religious fundamentalism and exclusionary nationalism have operated together in modern Kashmir to produce suppression of dissent, economic dysfunction, infrastructure collapse, mass displacements, political anarchy, and increasing repression of women. Throughout Kashmir today, burqa-clad women, fearful of attracting the notice of fundamentalist militants and Pakistan-trained terrorists, scurry past heavily armed Indian troops, barbed wire, and invasive searches. Khan documents how Kashmiri women and adolescent girls are routinely being subjected to a brutal new regime of humiliation, interrogation, torture, poverty, rape, and sex-trafficking by men on all sides of the conflict.
Download or read book Islam Women and Violence in Kashmir written by Nyla Ali Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy.
Download or read book Travels In Kashmir Ladakh Iskardo Set Of 2 Vols written by Godfrey Thomas Vigne and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir has always been a land of great fascination and charm. Throughout the ages, Kashmir has drawn visitors from the remotest corners of the world. Kashmir is such a beautiful country blessed with such a good climate, huge mountains, gushing rivers and lakes rich for agriculture which have forced the people from abroad to visit this land. The Author G.T. Vigne who visited Kashmir Ladakh and Iskardo narrates the story of his experience during his travels in these regions.
Download or read book Muslim Women Agency and Resistance Politics written by Inshah Malik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to take control of their lives and press for change. Despite experiencing isolating political conditions, Kashmiri women do not internalize their supposed inferiority. The author shows that women’s struggles against patriarchy are at the heart of a very complex historical resistance to the Indian rule.
Download or read book Muslim Women Under the Impact of On Going Conflict in Kashmir written by Inshah Malik and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research unfolds the issues of Muslim women living under the influence of the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. It unravels the different aspects of a conflict situation such as militarization and armed struggle and attempts to answer how they directly influence the lives of these women. This study further elaborates on the kinds of violence that women suffer and the scenarios in which they are perpetrated. The huge impact of militarization is more so manifested as physical and sexual abuse and has ethnic dimensions on the site of Muslim woman's body. It also shows that sexual abuse is used to demean the women and their community at large and is systematically perpetrated against them. The impact of conflict on family life of the women which leads to violence within the family. Conflict has impacted the lives of women by reinforcing the patriarchy which aggravates the women's social position. Stigma suffered due to sexual violence and detention in army camps also leads to change in the social positioning rendering women vulnerable to violence within family. This study also reveals that the aspects of health and economic status of women are influenced.
Download or read book Working Women in Kashmir written by Aneesa Shafi and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Srinagar City.
Download or read book Speaking Peace written by Urvashi Butalia and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that is a must-read for it gives a human face to a complex political problem. It should be read on both sides of the border. & Through the testimonies of ordinary and extraordinary women, it brings forth the complexities of a situation where the question of what is right and what is wrong is not as simple as leaders on both sides would have us believe. The Hindu ...leave no page unturned, no essay or sentence unread. Each word wounds, each story hurts, each incident of molestation and rape angers. And after you put it down, ask yourself this question: how can we even begin to imagine after what has been inflicted on them that they would want to be part of us ? Outlookindia.com
Download or read book Gender Conflict and Peace in Kashmir written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the role of women in militancy in Kashmir from a historical perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Working Women in Kashmir written by Bashir A. Dabla and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones written by Nyla Ali Khan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh and exciting new directions of inquiry into the highly contentious issue of conflict resolution in South Asia. By shifting its gaze from a politics of division mired in ethno-nationalisms into a healing and restorative focus, the author moves the dialogue forward into the realm of community, healing, and shared governance. The book analyzes the major constitutional and political missteps that have led to the current situation of violence and distrust in countries such as India and Pakistan, keeping the focus on Jammu and Kashmir. This monograph will appeal to a wide range of audiences including academics, researchers, graduate students interested in South Asian politics, development, trauma studies, and peace and conflict studies.
Download or read book Contesting Masculinities and Women s Agency in Kashmir written by Amya Agarwal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the non-state actors in the Kashmir valley. In addition, the book broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in the conflict. Combining existing elements of both feminist research and critical scholarship on men and masculinities, the book highlights the significance of foregrounding the interplay of men’s identities in conflicts to understand agency in a meaningful way. Through the focus on the simultaneous play of multiple masculinities, the book also questions the oversimplified and monolithic usage of masculinity being associated only with violence in conflicts. The empirical data in the book includes interviews and narratives of multiple stakeholders belonging to diverse vantage points in the Kashmir conflict. Some of these include activists, widows, wives of the disappeared, ex-militants, surrendered militants, participants of the stone-pelting movement, mothers of sons killed in the conflict, women representatives of the village Halqa Panchayats, and army personnel. The book also draws from alternative material in the form of graffiti, folk songs, poetry on graves, and slogans. Through anecdotal reminiscence, the author reflects on the challenges of field research in Kashmir that served as an opportunity for self-contemplation.
Download or read book Kashmir written by Arundhati Roy and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self- determination continues to be brutally suppressed. Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people.
Download or read book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora written by Essar Batool and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts, as many as 31 women were raped. Twenty-one years later, in 2012, the rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi galvanized a protest movement so widespread and deep that it reached all corners of the world. In Kashmir, a group of young women, all in their twenties, were inspired to re-open the Kunan-Poshpora case, to revisit their history and to look at what had happened to the survivors of the 1991 mass rape. Through personal accounts of their journey, this book examines questions of justice, of stigma, of the responsibility of the state, and of the long-term impact of trauma.
Download or read book The Parchment of Kashmir written by N. Khan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-disciplinary anthology on contemporary Kashmir by academics from Jammu and Kashmir, the first such volume to appear. The book offers a panorama of key cultural concerns of Jammu and Kashmir today, incorporating analysis of military, cultural, religious, and social aspects of the society and polity.
Download or read book The Life of a Kashmiri Woman written by N. Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of her generation to reconceptualize woman's identity in a politically militarized zone. An academic memoir, this book succinctly brings together the history, politics, and culture of Kashmir.
