The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent : Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Malvika.

Series:

Asian Borderlands Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity.Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidity embodied by folds of Panjals.These folds encapsulated social, cultural, and religious plurality within the principalities that thrived here.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Partitioned Ethnicities and Emergent Borderlands: The Rola of Santaali

Chapter 2: Ethnic Plurality, Religious Assertion and the Everyday : The Past Through the Present

Chapter 3: Cultural Religious Plurality and the Sikh Faith

Chapter 4: Caste, Marginality and the Dalit-Religion

Conclusion

Annexure. Population Trends in Poonch Since Pre-Partition Times

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-078108-X

1-04-079741-5

1-003-70718-1

90-485-5869-7

90-485-7303-3

9781003707189

OCLC:

1532521533

Publisher Number:

CIPO000308909