Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's Reflections on Kashmir

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime.

Collects Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's speeches and interviews for the first time Analyzes the ways in which experiences and representations of Kashmir have been constructed historically and have changed over time Argues against the traditional modes of discourse about Kashmir created by India and Pakistan Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Nyla Ali Khan is Faculty at Rose State College, former Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, and Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Dr. Khan is the author of three critically acclaimed books, including The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism, and the editor of a collection of essays on Kashmir. She is a native of Kashmir, and a native speaker of the Kashmir language.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Letters.- Chapter 3: Speeches.- Chapter 4: Press.- Chapter 5: Concluding Remarks.