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The parchment of Kashmir: history, society, and polity / edited by Nyla Ali Khan - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - viii, 262 p.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.

Part I Constructions of Kashmiri Identity Within the Overlapping Discourses of Kashmiriyat, Islam, Saivism, and Suhsm
1 Evolution of My Identity Vis-a-Vis Islam and Kashmir /Mohammad Ishaq Khan
2 Kashmiriyat: The Voice of the Past Misconstrued /Rattan Lal Hangloo

Part II Cultural Syncretism and Deconstruction of a Monolithic Culture
3 Mystical Thought of Kashmir /M. H. Zaffar
4 Syncretic Tradition and the Creative Life: Some Kashmiri Mystic Poets /Neerja Mattoo

Part III Conceptualization of Sovereignty, Democratic Governance, and Regional Stability
5 Democracy and Governance in Kashmir /Noor Ahmad Baba
6 Political Assertion of Kashmiri Identity /Gull Mohammad Wani
7 Kashmir in the Indian Project of Nationalism /Rekha Chowdhary

Part IV Sociological Dimensions of Conflict, Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency, Militarization, and a Monolithic Nationalism
8 Sociological Dimensions and Implications of the Kashmir Problem /Bashir Ahmed Dabla

Part V Representations of KnowIedge and Knowledge Production
9 Politics of Exclusion /Hameeda Naeem

ISBN: 9781137029577 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Group identity--India--Jammu and Kashmir
Nationalism--India--Jammu and Kashmir

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and Government

Dewey Class. No.: 954.6 / KHA/P