A “historiography of states that do not exist, have not been allowed to exist, and peoples who have been denied self-determination and the right to exercise their sovereignty.”
A “historiography of states that do not exist, have not been allowed to exist, and peoples who have been denied self-determination and the right to exercise their sovereignty.”
The book elaborates on the forms of state-building and the enduring effects of Bakshi’s rule through discussions of local, Indian, and international legitimacy for Indian rule over Kashmir,
From the resulting analysis, Kanjwal forcefully and convincingly pushes us to rethink the very separation, temporal and conceptual, between the colonial and the postcolonial.
Kanjwal’s research explores how the Indian government, through Bakshi, sought to integrate Kashmir into the Indian mainstream and solidify its control.
In her work, Prof. Kanjwal highlights how India entrenched and consolidated its colonization of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, and normalization.