Freedom in Captivity
Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir's Frontier
Part of South Asia in the Social Sciences
- Author: Radhika Gupta, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Date Published: May 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009201612
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How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Freedom in Captivity examines the affective attachments, political imaginaries, and ethical claims-making among the Shia Muslims of Kargil. In contrast to calls for freedom in the Kashmir Valley, Shias on the frontiers of Kashmir have sought belonging to India. Yet they do not entirely succumb to its hegemonic ideological boundaries. Departing from the dominant focus on physical cross-border mobility, this book is an invitation to reimagine borderlands as cartographies of ideas, cutting across spatial scales. Based on original ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2021, this monograph offers a unique long durée insight into the lives of people residing at the intersections of the biggest states in Asia.
Read more- Granular and bottoms-up insight into a geopolitically strategic border region
- Provides understanding of Muslim minority politics in contemporary India
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'A path-breaking study of one of the great flashpoints of the Kashmir struggle, which for the first time breaks out of conventional narratives about treason, terrorism and the territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Radhika Gupta's brilliant ethnography gives us a wholly new and highly pluralistic vision of Kashmir set within a strikingly original global imaginary.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford
See more reviews'Radhika Gupta's fine-grained ethnography and analytically sophisticated account of contemporary Shi'i lives and practices in Kargil is a major contribution to scholarship on borderland communities and takes studies on Muslims in the Trans-Himalayan borderlands to a new level. It shows how Kargili Shi'as draw on multiple networks of belonging and flows of ideas and ideologies to craft a self-confident future in their negotiation of regional and national projects of encapsulation. I hope that this eloquent and empathic account will reach the wide readership it deserves.' Martijn van Beek, Aarhus University
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- Date Published: May 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009201612
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Acronyms
Introduction: Freedom in Captivity
1. Genealogies of Political Consciousness
2. Reforming Self and Society
3. Fighting for Justice
4. Talking about Culture
5. Living on the Edge
Epilogue
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.
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