Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging Along Kashmir's Frontier

ISBN-13: 9781009201612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 290 str.

The Netherlands) Gupta Radhika (Leiden University

Opis

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Recenzje

'Radhika Gupta's fine-grained ethnography and analytically sophisticated account of contemporary Shi'i lives and practices in Kargil is a major contribution to scholarship on borderland communities and takes studies on Muslims in the Trans-Himalayan borderlands to a new level. It shows how Kargili Shi'as draw on multiple networks of belonging and flows of ideas and ideologies to craft a self-confident future in their negotiation of regional and national projects of encapsulation. I hope that this eloquent and empathic account will reach the wide readership it deserves.' Martijn van Beek, Aarhus University

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Acronyms; Introduction: Freedom in Captivity; 1. Genealogies of Political Consciousness; 2. Reforming Self and Society; 3. Fighting for Justice; 4. Talking about Culture; 5. Living on the Edge; Epilogue; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.