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Love, loss, and longing in Kashmir / Sahba Husain.
LIBRA DS485.K23 H87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Husain, Sahba, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Social conditions.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India).
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History.
- Husain, Sahba.
- Physical Description:
- xl, 252 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Zubaan, 2019.
- Summary:
- Researcher and activist Sahba Husain has been working in Kashmir for two decades, and in this personal, passionate account of that state and its people, she documents her deeply engaged and empathetic involvement with Kashmir's politicized terrain. We join her as she meets--and, crucially, listens to--people who carry all of the anger, despair, and helplessness of a people caught in conflict and violence. Forming deep friendships through this process, Husain finds herself questioning her own "Indian" identity. It is those relationships that form the backdrop of this book, in which Husain focuses on certain key areas: the health of a people, militancy and its changing meanings for local people and the state, impunity and the search for justice, migration and the longing for homes left behind, and women's activism along the faultlines of nation-state and community. A book of difficult subjects, but one that finds surprising beauty in its engagement with human relationships, of love for a land and a people and of hope for a future free of violence, Love, Loss, and Longing in Kashmir is a compelling and necessary read.
- Contents:
- 1 Fear, Displacement, Departure The Experience of the Kashmiri Pandits p. 1
- 2 In the Absence of Their Men The Phenomenon of Enforced Disappearances p. 72
- 3 The Other Face of Azadi The Presence of Women in the Movement p. 107
- 4 The Mind and the Body The Mental Health of the Kashmiri People p. 162
- 5 The Tyranny of Silence Sexual Violence and Impunity in Kashmir p. 204.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789385932878
- OCLC:
- 1125268246
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