TY - BOOK AU - Khan, Nyla Ali, ed. TI - The parchment of Kashmir: history, society, and polity SN - 9781137029577 (alk. paper) U1 - 954.6 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Group identity KW - India KW - Jammu and Kashmir KW - Nationalism KW - Jammu and Kashmir (India) KW - Politics and Government N1 - 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 ER -