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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2024Bartered bridegrooms
Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
by Suriyah Bi
In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.
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FictionApril 2024Moons of Instanbul
by Sophie Goldberg
Ventura, a beautiful young Turkish woman, travels to Mexico because her family has arranged her marriage to a fellow Sephardic immigrant. With a trunk full of hopes and traditions, she bravely faces the unknown, as she embarks on a surprising journey to start a new life, far from her homeland. The arrival, the nostalgia, the heart-wrenching uprooting and the adoption of a new homeland will mark her adventure as a migrant, until the long-awaited return to Turkey. Ventura will live each event with intensity and will season her days with the aromas, flavors, rhythms, colors and proverbs from the Far East. Amid recipes and customs inherited from her ancient culture, she will find the best antidote to homesickness, even if her memory cannot forget the Moons of Istanbul.
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Agriculture & farmingAugust 2022The Economic and Heritage Plants of Kashmir Himalaya
by Nazir Ahmad Zeerak
The Economic and Heritage Plants of Kashmir Himalaya is a ready reference source book, contains Botanical, English, Hindi /Urdu, Ladakhi and Kashmiri names of plants of Economic importance in Kashmir and Ladakh, with brief notes on their habit and habitat, morphology and utility. It largely reflects the regions existing Plant Genetic Resources for Food & Agriculture. Approximately, 1300 economic plant species and 500 crop varieties, existing in its agro-ecosystems, in wild as well as cultivated forms, arelisted in the book. Every possible effort has been made to give the latest nomenclature of plants together with their synonyms. Indices of English, Hindi, Kashmiri and Ladakhi names of the plants are appended at the end. The book should be useful to the students of Botany, Agriculture, Horticulture, Pharmacy and those interested in the Cultural Heritage of the region. It can also be helpful to researchers and planners working on the management and conservation of biodiversity of Indian Himalayan regions.
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Travel & holiday guidesJuly 2014Kashmir
Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, Zanskar
by Sophie & Max Lovell-Hoare
Encompassing a vast stretch of land from the lush Kashmir Valley to the mountains and epic wilderness of Ladakh, the area now covered by the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has long astounded visitors with its beauty. Marvel at the views from the roof of the world at Khardung La, trek along the frozen Zanskar River, stroll through the Eden-like Shalimar Gardens, take a shikara ride through the lotus-bedecked lakes of Srinagar and join the monks at Thiksey Monastery for early morning prayers by candlelight._x000D_ After decades of instability, Kashmir is back on the tourist scene and keen to make up for lost time. This, the only standalone mainstream guide to the state, makes the ideal companion whether you want to white-water raft on the Indus River, relax on a houseboat or explore Buddhist culture at shrines up and down the region._x000D_
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionMarch 2007Kashmir
A Problem in Search of a Solution
by Shahid Javed Burki
The ongoing territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over the status of the contested areas of Jammu and Kashmir (henceforth Kashmir) is well known and well documented. This study acknowledges that any resolution of this dispute may be many years in the making. Thus, rather than proposing solutions to the territorial conflict, the study explores the utility of forging enhanced economic opportunities for the people of the region and argues that doing so may prepare the ground for the eventual resolution of the dispute
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2022PARADISE LOST
A Contemporary History Of Kashmir 1947-2020
by Siddhartha Guha Ray
In 300 pages, a very concise distillation of the extremely complex history of Kashmir in the last 75 years, providing a well-researched and authoritative analysis on the roots and triggers of the conflict. Offering a comprehensive perspective about Kashmir’s unending strife through the telling of its narrative shaped by moments, events and multiple stakeholders, it is both scholarly and a great primer for those who want to understand the region’s ceaseless crisis. Anuradha Bhasin , Editor Kashmir Times Paradise Lost is a valuable contribution to understanding Kashmir, its complex past and its fractured and tortured present. Siddharta Guha Ray has deftly woven Kashmir's myriad threads together in a detailed and accessible book. David Barsamian Director Alternative Radio , USA “Dubiously known as "Paradise on Earth", Siddhartha Guha Ray's account presents the longhistory of disturbing details of deadly political turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, the north region ofthe Indian subcontinent. Ray meticulously describes the ever-tightening vice of ruthlesscompetitive domination by government and vigilante agents of India and Pakistan that havemade the region a veritable war zone from 1947 till now, with no advancing solution in sight." R.S. Ratner, ProfessorEmeritus, Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJune 2004
The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict
Opportunities for Economic Peacebuilding and for U.S. Policy
by Wajahat Habibullah
Recent efforts to develop warmer relations between South Asia’s two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, will not succeed unless political violence in Kashmir is substantially reduced. One of the key factors sustaining that violence is the dearth of economic opportunities, which ensures a steady supply of disaffected recruits to terrorist and militant groups. This report sketches the turbulent history of Kashmir from its de facto division in 1947 through the revolt of 1989–90 to the present, and then explores the economic dimensions of the conflict and the economic opportunities for peacebuilding. The governments of India and Pakistan, together with political leaders in Kashmir, must take the lead in promoting economic development, but they require the assistance of international financial institutions and of the United States, which is well placed to act not as a mediator but as a facilitator.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionAugust 2009
Promoting Cross-LoC Trade in Kashmir
An Analysis of the Joint Chamber
by Moeed Yusuf
This report examines the newly formed Federation of Jammu and Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry to suggest ways in which this nebulous entity can play an instrumental role in ensuring further expansion of cross–Line of Control (LoC) ties. The United States Institute of Peace’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution commissioned this report, which builds on two earlier reports published by USIP that analyze the possibilities and practicalities of managing the Kashmir conflict through softening the LoC to allow the easy movement of people, goods, and services. With neither India nor Pakistan able to impose its preferred solution to the conflict, the impasse in this six-decade-old war has gradually pushed leaders on both sides to show more flexibility in their traditional positions on Kashmir, without officially abandoning them. Both governments have repeatedly endorsed the “making borders irrelevant” concept—softening borders instead of redefining or removing them—giving it promise as a creative and pragmatic approach to the conflict. Because steps to implement this approach have been limited thus far, this in-depth consideration of the Joint Chamber provides a concrete illustration of the opportunities and challenges of the way forward.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJuly 2011
Tourism and Peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir
by P.R. Chari, Suba Chandran, Shaheen Aktar
This report, which was commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace, examines tourism in Kashmir as a vehicle for promoting peace and security between India and Pakistan. It argues that tourism—by facilitating and strengthening cross-border movement, interactions, and economic cooperation—could soften the Line of Control that separates Indian-controlled and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and thus make it permeable and irrelevant. It concludes with a series of specific recommendations for both Pakistan and India, including the proposal that the two countries should work collaboratively on tourism packages.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJuly 2017
Kashmir Line of Control and Grassroots Peacebuilding
by Pawan Bali and Shaheen Akhtar
This report evaluates the micro-impact of cross–Line of Control confidence-building measures, particularly trade and travel, between the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir since 2005. Commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace, it is based on a survey, focus group discussions, and interviews with local traders, academics, and civil society members on both sides.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionSeptember 2008
Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir
by P. R. Chari, Hasan Askari Rizvi
This report analyzes the possibilities and practicalities of managing the Kashmir conflict by “making borders irrelevant”—softening the Line of Control to allow the easy movement of people, goods, and services across it. The report draws on the results of a survey of stakeholders and public opinion on both sides of the Line of Control. The results of that survey, together with an initial draft of this report, were shown to a group of opinion makers in both countries (former bureaucrats and diplomats, members of the armed forces, academics, and members of the media), whose comments were valuable in refining the report’s conclusions.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionSeptember 2017
Ceasefire Violations in Jammu and Kashmir
A Line on Fire
by Happymon Jacob
Ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and international border between India and Pakistan have over the last decade been the primary trigger of tensions and conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad in the long-disputed Kashmir region. This report, supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and based on extensive field visits to the border areas, in-depth interviews with Indian and Pakistani military officials, and several primary datasets explains the factors behind the violations and suggests ways to control them within the context of the broader bilateral political dispute.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionFebruary 2017
China's Kashmir Policies and Crisis Management in South Asia
by I-wei Jenniger Chang
This Peace Brief examines China’s shifting positions on Kashmir and crisis management cooperation with the United States. I-wei Jennifer Chang is a program specialist in the China Program at the United States Institute of Peace.
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BiodiversityJanuary 2012Agri-Horticultural Biodiverstiy of Temperate and Cold Arid Regions
by Nazir Ahmad Zeerak & Shafiq A. Wani
The book describes the existing Plant Biodiversity of Agri-horticultural importance of temperate (Kashmir) and cold arid (Ladakh) Himalayan regions of India. The diversity presented is based on actual survey conducted by the authors across the regions over the last several year. The contents of the book include the available varietal wealth, both in wild as well cultivated forms, existing within all major economic plant groups of the regions viz Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds, Spice and Condiments, Forages, Vegetables, Ornamentals, Fruits and Nuts and Underutilized Plants. Technical, English and Kashmiri/Ladakhi names of plants of economic importance are given along with brief notes on their status and utility. The work will be helpful to researchers and students working in the fields of Plant Biodiversity, Plant Breeding, Horticulture and Economic Botany. It can specifically serve as a ready reference book for researchers and planners working on management and conservation of plant genetic resources of Indian Himalayan regions.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJuly 2021Courtyard Houses of India
by Yatin Pandya
Indian architecture is not an object in space; it integrates space within the object, where the built and the unbuilt become counterpoints to vitalize each other. The alchemy of the two sustains the space and the life within. The void within the built—the courtyard—lies at the genesis of the urban dwelling form in India across geography and time. In ancient Indian sciences, the courtyard assumes the central position as Brahmasthana, the nucleus of the living environment. It provided for an open-to-sky outdoor space while being away from the public eye and thus suited an introverted lifestyle. In this book, the author traces the metaphysical, mythical, socio-cultural, environmental and spatial roles of the courtyard in the domestic architecture of India—from early civilization and Vedic times to Islamic and colonial influences. This volume documents traditional and vernacular courtyard dwelling types across India within diverse climatic, cultural as well as geographic zones such as western (Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra), southern (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa), eastern (Bihar, West Bengal), central (Madhya Pradesh) and northern (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.). It then discerns the spatial elements constituting the court, and the arts, the crafts as well as the elements integral to the court. Illustrated with splendid photographs and representative drawings, the book attempts to understand the presence and resolution, continued use and adaptation as well as the diverse interpretations and abstractions of the courtyard. Yatin Pandya is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as a practising architect with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing). He is a graduate of CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University, Montreal. Pandya has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, architecture, interior design and product design as well as conservation projects. He has authored numerous papers, which have appeared in national and international journals, and has produced several documentary films on architecture. During his tenure at the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, Pandya worked on the publications Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture and Elements of Spacemaking, published by Mapin and now in their fourth reprint, which have won the Indian Institute of Architects’ (IIA) Award for Architectural Excellence in Research in the years 2012 and 2014, respectively. The research leading to this book was also carried out during his time at Vastu-Shilpa Foundation. He is a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design and CEPT University, and a guest lecturer at various universities in India and abroad. The recipient of numerous national and international awards for research, design and dissemination, Pandya counts environmental sustainability, socio-cultural appropriateness, timeless aesthetics and economic affordability to be key principles of his work.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionMarch 2005
Quickstep or Kadam Taal?
The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir
by Praveen Swami
At first glance, India and Pakistan today seem closer to peace than at any point in the past several decades. The cease-fire that went into place along the Line of Control in December 2003 has held; terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir has been in steady decline since the two nuclear-armed states almost went to war in 2002; and both countries have succeeded in sustaining a wide-ranging and high-level dialogue process. All this appears to suggest that conditions exist for resolution of one of the world’s most intractable and bloody conflicts, the India-Pakistan war over Jammu and Kashmir. Yet the current détente process between India and Pakistan suffers from the same structural infirmities that led past peace initiatives to collapse. Instead of looking for a resolution of the grand historical conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, peacemakers might do well to focus on the problems of the state’s peoples—thus building a base from which creative democratic solutions might eventually emerge.
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Twenty Three Summers
by Shrutidhora P Mohor
Set against the backdrop of a conflict-ridden Kashmir valley and spanning twenty-three years of unfinished love and longing, pain and sublimation, this is a story of refracted love between ambitious and competent Sudarshan and quiet and tender Farooq, two human souls who bleed and cry together but on two different notes. For tormented Sudarshan, love is about being unambiguous in its proclamations, aggressively possessive; for helpless Farooq, it is about stepping back, letting go, nurturing, caring, attending, renouncing. The personal currents of a turbulent relationship and the political dynamics of Kashmir cross-cut and fuse in this political love story.
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FictionNovember 2022Mansur
by Vikramajit Ram
Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Saturday, the 27th of February, 1627. The master artist Mansur, who works under the patronage of Mughal emperor Jahangir, must finish his painting of a dodo and prepare for an imminent journey to Kashmir when he is interrupted by a younger colleague, Bichitr. An innocuous remark from this visitor – first to Mansur and a little later to the portraitist Abu’l Hasan – has dire consequences as more characters at the imperial atelier, the library and the Women’s Quarter are drawn into a web of secrets, half-truths and petty rivalries. At the heart of the story is a jewel-like verse book whose pages Mansur has illuminated and filled with lifelike butterflies. On reaching Verinag, the royal summer retreat in Kashmir, the painter must present the book to its author, the empress Nur Jahan, who had commissioned it as a keepsake for her husband, the emperor Jahangir. A delay in the book reaching Mansur from the bindery adds to his apprehensions that its very existence is no longer a secret, coupled with dread that so precious an artefact might fall into the wrong hands. What must the painter confront before his masterwork is conveyed safely to Verinag?
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Kashmirnama
by Ashok Kumar Pandey
Located in the northern part of India and abutting borders with China, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kashmir is an area of great gee-political importance, which has witnessed armed conflicts, several insurgencies and continued terrorism over the last hundred years. It is one of the most heavily militarized zones in the world todc.y, and is considered one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
