Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan

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Palgrave Macmillan US, Nov 17, 2010 - Social Science - 211 pages
Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy.

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One Conflicting Political Discourses Partition
17
Two Cultural Syncretism in Kashmir
45
Three Political Debacles
63
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About the author (2010)

Nyla Ali Khan is a visiting professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

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