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Paperback. Zustand: Wie neu. 450 S. Like new. Shrink wrapped. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. "This is a remarkable work of scholarship which shows how Kashmir s modern Muslim identity came into existence. In doing this, it demonstrates the complex manner in which politics can enforce the creation of religious identity. Kashmir is a hotbed of religious politics. Disputed between India and Pakistan, this territory comprises a large majority of Muslims who are subject to the laws of a predominantly Hindu and increasingly Hinduised India. How did religion and politics become so inextricably enmeshed in defining and expressing the protest of Kashmir s Muslims against Hindu rule? This book is a brilliant historical study of this central issue in the troubled politics of South Asia s most picturesque and most volatile province. Mridu Rai argues that the origins of present political conditions and problems lie in the hundred-year period preceding the creation of India and Pakistan, when Kashmir was ruled by a succession of Hindu Dogra kings. The Dogras wielded power under the aegis of British imperialism, and the collusion of colonial state and collaborating vassals played no small part in shaping a decisively Hindu sovereignty over a subject Muslim populace. This sovereignty took a novel political form in Kashmir. It was characterized by an unprecedented degree of control by rulers intent on establishing and legitimizing their authority via Hindu forms of patronage, tradition, ritual, and related strategies. The region s Muslims, unlike its Hindus, were left out of the power-sharing arrangements not simply because of their religion but because, as Muslims, they became irrelevant to the legitimizing devices installed by the Hindu Dogras and their British overlords. Therefore, the protest of Kashmiri Muslims historically represents not so much a defense of Islam as a defence of their rights by a community defined specifically as Muslims by an explicitly Hindu ruling hierarchy. This explains the development of a consciousness among Kashmiri Muslims of religiously-based neglect, as well as the emergence of their ongoing political protest. Everyone interested in Kashmir and its history will want this book, as will those who study religion, politics, legal rights, and community identities.". …

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,335pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, brown cloth, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 1850656614.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 335 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMridu Rai is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.InhaltsverzeichnisAcknowledgements x Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: Territorializing Sovereignity: The D.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Disputed between India and Pakistan, Kashmir contains a large majority of Muslims subject to the laws of a predominantly Hindu and increasingly 'Hinduized' India. How did religion and politics become so enmeshed in defining the protest of Kashmir's Muslims against Hindu rule This book reaches beyond standard accounts that look to the 1947 partition of India for an explanation. Examining the 100-year period before that landmark event, during which Kashmir was ruled by Hindu Dogra kings under the aegis of the British, Mridu Rai highlights the collusion that shaped a decisively Hindu sovereignty over a subject Muslim populace. Focusing on authority, sovereignty, legitimacy, and community rights, she explains how Kashmir's modern Muslim identity emerged. Rai shows how the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was formed as the East India Company marched into India beginning in the late eighteenth century. After the 1857 rebellion, outright annexation was abandoned as the British Crown took over and princes were incorporated into the imperial framework as junior partners. But, Rai argues, scholarship on other regions of India has led to misconceptions about colonialism, not least that a 'hollowing of the crown' occurred throughout as Brahman came to dominate over King. In Kashmir the Dogra kings maintained firm control. They rode roughshod over the interests of the vast majority of their Kashmiri Muslim subjects, planting the seeds of a political movement that remains in thrall to a religiosity thrust upon it for the past 150 years.…