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Settler/colonialism in Kashmir : Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity.

De Gruyter Manchester University Press 2026 eBook-Package Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Osuri, Goldie.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Settler colonialism.
Human rights.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
Summary:
This book examines India's settler/colonial rule in Kashmir through historical and contemporary settler/colonial geopolitics. Analysing Kashmir's place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order and ecological catastrophe, the book contributes to pressing debates regarding current planetary crises.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Map and figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Terminology and positionality
5 August 2019
Rationale
Methodology
Chapter outlines
Notes
Chapter 1: Placing Kashmir in the settler/colonial analytic
CKS and the settler colonial analytic
The settler colonial analytic: challenging binaries
Grounding the settler colonial analytic in Indigenous sovereignty
Settler colonialism and the geopolitical and capitalist world order
Chapter 2: Settler/colonial sovereignty as catastrophe
Sovereignty as catastrophe: a retrieval from Eurocentrism
Settler/colonial sovereignty as catastrophe
Settler/colonial sovereignty and the Anthropocene
Chapter 3: Frontierising Kashmir: 'great games' and settler/colonial border-making
Borderlands and frontiers scholarship
Colonial geopolitical rivalry: Britain and Tsarist Russia
Kashmir as 'frontier' in Cold War geopolitics
Making borders out of settler/colonial frontiers
Frontierising Kashmir: contemporary global settler/colonial geopolitics
Chapter 4: A 'frontier governmentality' of Kashmir's political economy
A militarised settler/colonial frontier governmentality
Frontier governmentality militarism for Naya Kashmir
Frontier governmentality post-August 2019
Kashmir in a transnational militarised settler/colonial world order
Chapter 5: Indigenising India's Brahmanical settler/colonial sovereignty in Kashmir
The Amarnath yatra: genesis
Religion and the (il)legitimations of Dogra and Indian rule
The Kashmir Files: indigenisation through exploitation
The Amarnath yatra's environmental costs
Chapter 6: Kashmiri Indigeneity: resistance in catastrophic times
Indigeneity.
Kashmiri Indigeneity: political sovereignty and resistance
Indigeneity and ecology: surviving settler/colonial catastrophe
Epilogue
Settler/colonialism through the attempted elimination of Indigenous narratives
Kashmiri futures through transnational activism and solidarity
References
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
1-5261-9605-0
1-5261-9607-7
OCLC:
1552591142

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