The Kashmir Syllabus

COURSE DESCRIPTION

#TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirations of people from within Kashmir, and moves beyond prior scholarship that often took security studies approaches and thereby privileged the statist perspectives of India and Pakistan. This critical body of work on Kashmir allows for a lens into the broader study of the modern state, occupation, nationalism, sovereignty, militarization, social movements, resistance, human rights, international law, and self-determination.

This is an interdisciplinary working syllabus that includes academic scholarship as well as literature, memoirs, and journalistic pieces. It is an incomplete and evolving work in progress. The group hopes that this syllabus will be used by those within Kashmir studies and beyond, and that it will be useful to academics and non-academics. Although they have minimized repetition across the weekly modules, users are encouraged to think flexibly about how particular readings may also speak to multiple weekly themes across the syllabus.

Syllabus goals:

To understand how Kashmiris themselves have made sense of their political past, present and future, through work that centers Kashmiri experiences
To foreground emerging perspectives by Kashmiri scholars, activists and artists, including women and other often marginalized voices
To widen disciplinary approaches to studying Kashmir, beyond international relations (IR) scholarship, which largely presents Kashmir through the statist lenses of India and Pakistan
To suggest paths for decolonial, transnational and anti-occupation solidarities among movements for freedom and emancipation, through a close study of the region

This syllabus is certainly not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of resources or readings, but it allows for a diverse range of teachable materials for each of the weekly themes.

Note on updates:

The Kashmir Syllabus has been compiled by a group of researchers and students and is a work in progress. As a syllabus, it is not designed to be comprehensive or representative of all articles written on Kashmir. The SWK team is not currently making any updates to the syllabus. Thank you!

COURSE OUTLINE

CRITICAL COMMENTARY POST AUGUST 5, 2019

Ahmed, Binish. 2019. “Kashmir: If People You Know That Exist, Don’t Exist Anymore, Do They Still Exist?” Amnesty International India, September 30.

Ahmed, Binish. 2019. “Call the Crime in Kashmir by its Name: Ongoing Genocide.” The Conversation, August 8.

Aijazi, Omer. 2019. “How To Be an Ally with Kashmir: War Stories from the Kitchen.” The Conversation, August 18.

Anand, Dibyesh. 2019. “Kashmir Is a Dress Rehearsal for Hindu Nationalist Fantasies.” Foreign Policy, August 8.

Bhan, Mona, Haley Duschinski, and Goldie Osuri. 2019. “The International Community Must Intervene on Kashmir.” Open Democracy, August 14.

Chak, Farhan Mujahid. 2019. “Kashmir, Genocide and the Spirit of Resistance.” The New Arab, August 20.

Chak, Farhan Mujahid. 2019. “India’s Settler Colonial Project in Kashmir Should Force the World to Act.” TRT World. December 2.

Chatterji, Angana. 2019. “SUBMISSION on Human Rights in South Asia: A Focus on Kashmir: Testimony Given to House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee On Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation.” United States Congress. October 22.

Chatterji. Angana. 2019. “Appendices to SUBMISSION on Human Rights in South Asia: A Focus on India-administered Kashmir: Testimony Given to House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation.” United States Congress. October 22.

Kanjwal, Hafsa, Ather Zia and Sameetah Agha. 2019. “Occupied Kashmir: Poetry and Disappearance.” AAWW Radio podcast with Asian American Writers Workshop, October 9.

Malhotra, Khushdeep Kaur. 2020. “Shared Trauma Underpins Sikh-Muslim Solidarity in Kashmir.” The Wire, January 23.

Mushtaq, Samreen. 2019. “The Violent Misogyny that Partners India’s Stripping of Kashmiri Autonomy.” TRTWorld, August 9.

Mushtaq, Samreen. 2019. “Militarization, Misogyny, and Gendered Violence in Kashmir.” London School of Economics and Political Science blog, September 9.

Mushtaq, Samreen and Mudasir Amin. 2019. “The Panchayati Raj System Will Be the New Instrument of India’s Control over Kashmir.” The Caravan, September 5.

Osuri, Goldie. 2019. “Kashmiris Are Living a Long Nightmare of Indian Colonialism.” The Conversation. August 21.

Pandit, Idrisa. 2019. “The ‘Israel Model’: The Fragile Paradise of Kashmir Faces an Existential Threat.” Middle East Eye, December 3.

Pandit, Idrisa. 2019. “India is Escalating Kashmir Conflict by Painting It as Terrorism.” OpenDemocracy, December 2.

Rai, Mridu. 2019. “History of Betrayals in Kashmir.” Frontline, August 30.

Saraf, Aditi. 2019. “The Lie of the Land: Why Losing Territorial Sovereignty Poses an Existential Threat to Kashmiris.” Caravan, October 1.

Zargar, Haris. 2019. “Kashmir’s Resistance Anthem.” New Frame, October 15.

Zia, Ather. 2020. “The Hindu Rashtra Comes of Age.” Contending Modernities, January 3.

Zia, Ather. 2019. “Straw Man Arguments and the Removal of Article 370.” University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, Asia Dialogue blog, September 27.

WEEK 1: THEORIZING OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE

Bhan, Mona, Haley Duschinski, and Ather Zia. 2018. “‘Rebels of the Streets’: Violence, Protest, and Freedom in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Duschinski, Haley, and Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh. 2017. “Constituting the Occupation: Preventive Detention and Permanent Emergency in Kashmir.” Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 49(3): 314-337.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2013. “Death and Life Under Military Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir.” In Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East, edited by Kamala Visweswaran, 158–90. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. 2009. Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2018. “India’s Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism.” Feminist Review 119: 126-143.
Kaul, Suvir. 2011. “Indian Empire (and the Case of Kashmir).” Economic & Political Weekly 46(13).
Malik, Inshah. 2018. “Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen” in Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities, edited by Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Misri, Deepti. “Dark Ages and Bright Futures: Youth, Disability and Time in Kashmir.” Public Culture, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2020.
Osuri, Goldie. 2017. “Imperialism, Colonialism and Sovereignty in the (Post)colony: India and Kashmir.” Third World Quarterly 38(11): 2428-2443.
Wani, Mannan. 2018. “Words Matter! Mannan Wani writes an open letter.” Kashmir Lit.
Wani, Mannan. 2018. “Words Matter! Mannan Wani writes a second letter.” Kashmir Lit.

WEEK 2: HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT

Acardi, Dean. 2018. “Orientalism and the Invention of Kashmiri Religion(s).” International Journal of Hindu Studies 3(22).
Ankit, Rakesh. 2018. “Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah of Kashmir, 1965-1975: From Externment to Enthronement.” Studies in Indian Politics 6(1): 88-102.
Ankit, Rakesh. 2016. The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66. London: Routledge.
Dar, Fayaz A and Amir Kumar. 2015. “Marginality and Historiography: The Case of Kashmir’s History.” Economic & Political Weekly 50(39).
Faheem, Farrukh. 2018. “Interrogating the Ordinary: Everyday Politics and the Struggle for Azadi in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Fareed, Rifat. 2017. “The Forgotten Massacre that Ignited the Kashmir Dispute.” Al Jazeera English, November 6.
Junaid, Mohamad and Hafsa Kanjwal. 2019. “Resisting Occupation: A Teach In,” March 18.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2019. “We, the water-born- a political history in thirty scenes.” Wande Magazine, February 12.
Kanjwal, Hafsa. 2018. “Reflections on the Post-Partition Period: Life Narratives of Kashmiri Muslims in Contemporary Kashmir.” Himalaya 38(2): 40-60.
Kanth, Idrees. 2018. “The Social and Political Life of a Relic: The Episode of the Moi-e-Muqaddas Theft in Kashmir, 1963-1964.” Himalaya 38(2): 61-75.
Kanth, Idrees. 2011. “Writing Histories in Conflict Zones,” Economic & Political Weekly 46(26-27).
Kaul, N. (2013) “Kashmir: A Place of Blood and Memory”, in Sanjay Kak (ed.) Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir, Chicago: Haymarket Books, pp. 189-212.
Kaul, Suvir. 2011. “” An’ You will Fight, Till the Death of It…”: Past and Present in the Challenge of Kashmir.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 78: 1: 173-202.
Lone, Fozia Nazir. 2018. Historical Title, Self-Determination and the Kashmir Question: Changing Perspectives in International Law. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Noorani, A. G. 2011. Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Para, Altaf Hussain. 2018. The Making of Modern Kashmir: Sheikh Abdullah and the Politics of the State. New York: Routledge.
Parey, Firdous Hameed. 2018. “The Ranbir Newspaper: As an Advocate of the Freedom Struggle in Jammu and Kashmir from 1924-1950.” International Journal of Social Sciences Review 6(8): 1533-1535.
Rai, Mridu. 2004. Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir. London: Hurst.
Rai, Mridu. 2018. “The Indian Constituent Assembly and The Making Of Hindus And Muslims In Jammu And Kashmir.” Asian Affairs 49(2): 205-221.
Rai, Mridu. 2019. “Kashmiris in the Hindu Rashtra.” in Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India, edited by Angana Chatterjee, Thomas Blom Hansen, and Christophe Jaffrelot, 259-280. London: Hurst and Company.
Rashid, Iffat. 2019. “Of Silenced Narratives and Political Deceits: Exploding Hyper Nationalism in India and the Case of Kashmir.” Public Seminar, May 23.
Rashid, Iffat. 2020. “Theatrics of a ‘Violent State’ or ‘State of Violence:’ Mapping Histories and Memories of Partition in Jammu and Kashmir.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Wani, Aijaz Ashraf. 2019. What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yaqoob, Gowhar. 2019. “In Pursuit of a Nation: Conflicting Formulations of Nationalism in the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir (1930-1940).” Inverse Journal, March 16.
TRT World. “The Kashmir Conflict in under Two Minutes,” October 26.
Trisal, Nishita. 2015. “In Kashmir, Nehru’s Golden Chain that He Hoped Would Bind the State to India Have Lost their Lustre.” Scroll.in, November 30.

WEEK 3: THE MILITARIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Aggarwal, Ravina and Mona Bhan. 2009. “Disarming Violence: Development, Development, and Security on the Borders of India.” Journal of Asian Studies 68 (2): 519-542.
Amnesty International. 2011. A ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions Under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act.
Balagopal, K., M.J. Pandey, Suresh Rajeshwar, and Vinod Shetty. 1996. “Voting at the Point of a Gun: Counter-insurgency and the Farce of Elections in Kashmir. A Report to the People of India,” July.
Banday, Zulkarnain. 2018. “‘Journalism Is Not a Crime’: The Unlawful Crackdown on the Media in Kashmir.” Caravan Magazine, October 15.
Bhan, Mona. 2008. “Border Practices: Labor and Nationalism among Brogpas of Ladakh.” Contemporary South Asia 16 (2): 139-157.
Boga, Dilnaz. 2010. “Kashmir Valley’s Spiraling Drug Abuse.” Countercurrents.org, June 10.
Chatterji, Angana. 2011. “The Militarized Zone.” In Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, edited by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra, and Arundhati Roy. London: Verso Books.
Duschinski, Haley and Bruce Hoffman. 2011. “On the Frontlines of the Law: Legal Advocacy and Political Protest by Lawyers in Contested Kashmir.” Anthropology Today 27(5): 8–12.
Imroz, Parvez. 2017. Keynote Lecture. 2017 Rafto Conference, Bergen, Norway. Wande Magazine, November 5.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2018. “The Restored Humanity of Commander Burhan Wani.” Raiot, July 14.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2019. “Disobedient Bodies, Defiant Objects: Occupation, Necropolitics and the Resistance in Kashmir.” Funambulist 21.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2019. “Counter-maps of the Ordinary: Occupation, Subjectivity, and Walking under Curfew in Kashmir.” Identities, June 24.
Kaur, Bhavneet. 2016. “The Poetics of Resistance.” Kindle, April 2.
Manecksha, Freny. 2017. Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children. New Delhi: Rupa Publications.
Mathur, Shubh. 2016. The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conflict: Grief and Courage in a South Asia Borderland. London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Maqbool, Majid. 2013. “In the Shadow of Bunker,” Warscapes, April 29.
Medecins San Frontieres. 2015. “Muntazar: Kashmir Mental Health Survey.”
Medecins San Frontieres. 2006. “Kashmir: Violence and Mental Health,” December 14.
Molen, Thomas Van Der and Ellen Bal. 2011. “Staging ‘Small Small Incidents’: Dissent, Gender and Militarisation among Young People in Kashmir.” Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 60: 93-107.
Murukutla, Kartik. 2019. “Is Kashmir under Military Occupation?” War, No War: Podcast by the Polis Project, Interview by Parvaiz Bukhari, February 18.
Parrey, Arif Ayaz. 2010. “Kashmir: Three Metaphors for the Present,” Economic & Political Weekly 45(47): 47-53
Qazi, Fozia S. 2018. “Curfew Diary – Kashmir 2016.” In a special issue on Protest in Women’s Studies Quarterly 46 (3-4) edited by Elena Cohen, Melissa Forbis and Deepti Misri: 237-260.
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC). 2009. Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA): A Study in National Security Tyranny.
Suhail, Peer and Jingzhong Ye. 2015. “Of Militarisation, Counter-insurgency and Land Grabs in Kashmir.” Economic & Political Weekly 50(46-47): 58-64.
Vijayan, Suchitra. 2016. “Curfew is the Camp.” Warscapes.
Waheed, Mirza. 2016. “India’s Crackdown in Kashmir: Is This the World’s First Mass Blinding?” The Guardian, November 8.
Yusuf, Shazia. 2014. “The Hidden Damage.” Guernica, October 2.

Zia, Ather. 2019. “Blinding Kashmiris: The Right to Maim and the Indian Military Occupation in Kashmir.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21(6): 773-786.

WEEK 4: BORDERS, REGIONS AND BOUNDARIES

Aggarwal, Ravina. 2004. Beyond Lines of Control. Durhan: Duke University Press.
Aijazi, Omer. 2018. “Kashmir as Movement and Multitude.” Journal of Narrative Politics 4(2): 88-118.
Ali, Nosheen. 2012. “Poetry, Power, Protest: Reimagining Muslim Nationhood in Northern Pakistan.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32(1): 13-24.
Ali, Nosheen. 2013. “Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan.” In Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East, edited by Kamala Visweswaran, 85–114. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ali, Nosheen. 2016. “Kashmir and Pakistan’s Savior Nationalism.” Critical Kashmir Studies, December 27.
Ali, Nosheen. 2019. Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bhan, Mona. 2016. “Divide and Rule.” Kindle, April 2.
Bharat, Meenakshi, and Nirmal Kumar, editors. 2008. Filming the Line of Control: The Indo-Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens. New Delhi: Routledge.
Gupta, Radhika. 2014. “Experiments with Khomeini’s Revolution in Kargil: Contemporary Shi‘a Networks between India and West Asia.” Modern Asian Studies 48(2): 370-398.`
Gupta, Radhika. 2013. “Allegiance and Alienation: Border Dynamics in Kargil.” In Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, edited by D. Gellner. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hayat, Javaid. Forthcoming. Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Polity, Politics, and Power-Sharing. Pakistan: Oxford University Press.
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. 2009. “Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control.” Social Text 27(4(101)): 45-66.
Kaul, N. (2011) “On Loving and Losing Kashmir”, India International Centre (IIC) Quarterly, Special Issue on Kashmir, Winter-Spring. Co-published as a book in Ira Pande (ed.) A Tangled Web: Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi: Harper Collins India, pp 42-53.
Mahmud, Ershad. 2018. “The Contingencies of Everyday Life in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mathur, Shubh. 2013. “The Perfect Enemy: Maps, Laws and Sacrifice in the Making of Borders.” Critique of Anthropology 33 (4): 429–446.
Robinson, Cabeiri deBergh. 2013. Body of the Victim, Body of the Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Smith, Sara. 2013. “In the Past, We Ate from One Plate”: Memory and the Border in Leh, Ladakh.” Political Geography 35:47-59.
Smith, Sara. 2012. “Intimate Geopolitics: Religion, Marriage, and Reproductive Bodies in Leh, Ladakh.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102: 1511-1528.
Snedden, Christopher. 2013. Kashmir: The Unwritten History. New Delhi: Harper Collins.
Sökefeld, Martin. 2018. “‘Not Part of Kashmir, but of the Kashmir Dispute’: The Political Predicaments of Gilgit-Baltistan.” In Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation, edited by Chitralekha Zutshi, 132-149. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Beek, M. 2003. “The Art of Representation: Domesticating Ladakhi Identity.” In Ethnic and Religious Revival and Turmoil: Identities and Representations in the Himalayas, edited by M. Lecomte-Tilouine and P. Dollfus. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Wahid, Siddiq. 2001. “Ladakh: Political Convergence and Human Geography.” India International Centre Quarterly. 27/28(4/1): The Human Landscape: 215-225.
Zakaria, Anam. 2018. Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-Administered Kashmir. New Delhi: Harper Collins.
Ather, Zia. 2019. “LoC: The Line ‘Out’ of Control in the Region of Kashmir.” American Quarterly 71(4): 1037-1043.

WEEK 5: STATE OF EMERGENCY AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF IMPUNITY

Duschinski, Haley. 2009. “Destiny Effects: Militarization, State Power, and Punitive Containment in Kashmir Valley.” Anthropological Quarterly 82(3): 691–717.
Duschinski, Haley. 2010. “Reproducing Regimes of Impunity: Fake Encounters and the Informalization of Violence in Kashmir Valley.” Cultural Studies 24(1): 110–32.
Duschinski, Haley and Bruce Hoffman. 2011. “Everyday Violence, Institutional Denial, and Struggles for Justice in Kashmir.” Race & Class 52(4): 44–70.
Duschinski, Haley and Mona Bhan. 2017. “Law Containing Violence: Critical Ethnographies of Occupation and Resistance.” Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 49(3): 253-267.
Fazili, Gowhar. 2018. “Police Subjectivity in Occupied Kashmir: Reflections on an Account of a Police Officer.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ganai, Naseer. 2018. “Killed While Wandering, Mentally Challenged People Are Victims Of Kashmir Insurgency”. Outlook, November 14.
Ghosh, Shrimoyee Nandini and Haley Duschinski. 2017. “How New Delhi uses Constitution to Control Kashmir.” Kashmir Ink, September.
Ghosh, Shrimoyee Nandini. 2017. “Public Safety Act: The Making and Unmaking of the Dangerous Individual in Kashmir.” Café Dissensus, February 20.
Javaid, Azaan. 2018. “Kashmir’s Infamous Prisons Are Destroying The State’s Troubled Youth.” HuffPost, October 25.
Kak, Sanjay. 2013. “The Apparatus: Laying Bare the State’s Terrifying Impunity in Kashmir.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, March 1.
Kak, Sanjay. 2018. “Stand Up and Be Counted: Elections, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Justice in Jammu and Kashmir.” In Contesting Justice in South Asia, edited by Deepak Mehta and Rahul Roy, 157-200. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Mathur, Shubh. 2012. “Life and Death in the Borderlands: Indian Sovereignty and Military Impunity.” Race & Class 54 (1): 33–49.

WEEK 6: MARTYRDOM AND MEMORYSCAPES

Ali, Agha Shahid. 2009. The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Fareed, Rifat. 2017. “In Kashmir, a Father’s Fight against Forgetfulness.” Al Jazeera English, December 12.
Ghosh, Amitav. 2002. “‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn.” Postcolonial Studies 5(3): 311-323.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2018. “Epigraphs as Counterhistories: Martyrdom, Commemoration, and the Work of Graveyards in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Komal, Zunaira. 2019. “‘Until Kashmir Is Free, War It Will Be:’ Islam, Militancy, and Suffering in Kashmir.” Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, August 16.
Maqbool, Majid. 2017. “The Curious Afterlife of Burhan Wani.” Arre, July 8.
Pandit, Huzaifa. 2019. “Maqbool Bhat on the ‘Ganga Hijacking Trial.” Wande Magazine, February 23.
Rather, Nayeem. 2017. “Memoir of a Siege: Life between Resistance and Repression.” Kashmir Narrator, February 1.
Rather, Nayeem. 2018. “The Blood and the Ink of a Scholar: A Journalist’s Journey to Manan Wani’s Garrisoned Hometown.” Free Press Kashmir, October 12.
Roy, Arundhati, editor. 2006. 13 December: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament. New Delhi: Penguin.
Tahir, Muhammad. 2019. “Maqbool Bhat’s famous 1969 speech at Muzaffarabad.” Wande Magazine, February 21.

Wande Team. 2019. “The Life and Times of Maqbool Bhat.” Wande, February 11.
Yaseen, Suvaid. 2018. “The Beloved Rebel, Professor of Sociology.” Raiot, May 8.
Zia, Ather. 2018. “The Killable Kashmiri Body: The Life and Execution of Afzal Guru.”In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

WEEK 7: WOMEN’S ORGANIZING IN KASHMIR

Ahangar, Parveena. 2017. Keynote Lecture. 2017 Rafto Conference, Bergen, Norway. KashmirLit, November.
Ahangar, Parveena. 2019. “My Son Is One of Kashmir’s ‘Disappeared.’ When Will India Tell the Truth about Their Fate?” The Guardian, September 12.
Anjum, Aaliya. 2011. “The Militant in Her: Women and Resistance.” Al Jazeera, August 2.
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS). 2011. “Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir,” July.
Bhan, Mona and Parvaiz Bukhari. 2017. “Inside Kashmir – A Heroic Fight for Justice.” Sapiens, May 25.
Critical Kashmir Studies. 2018. “Decolonial Statement on #MeToo in Kashmir.” Critical Kashmir Studies, October 7.
Falak, Uzma. 2018. “The Intimate World of Vyestoan: Affective Female Alliances and Companionships of Resistance in Kashmir.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Jha, Abishek. 2015. “Beyond ‘Victimhood’: Uzma Falak’s Film On The Role Of Kashmiri Women In The Resistance.” Interview with Uzma Falak in Youth Ki Awaz.
Kanjwal, Hafsa. 2018. “The New Kashmiri Woman: State-led Feminism in ‘Naya Kashmir.’” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Kanth, Mir Fatimah. 2018. “Women in Resistance: Narratives of Kashmiri Women’s Street Protests.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Kaul, Nitasha and Ather Zia. 2018. “Knowing in Our Own Ways: Women and Kashmir.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Kaur, Khushdeep Malhotra. 2019. “On Kashmiri Sikh Women and their Experiences with Militarization”. Wande Magazine, March 21.
Kazi, Seema. 2011. In Kashmir: Gender, Militarization, and the Modern Nation-State. Boston: South End.
Kazi, Seema. 2016. “Sexual Crimes by State Personnel and Kashmir’s Case for Self-Determination.” Kashmir Narrator, May 5.
Malik, Inshah. 2019. Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir. London: Palgrave Pivot.
Malik, Inshah. 2018. “Protest, Death and Public Funerals: The Affective Site of Feminist Politics in Kashmir.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 20(4): 660-662.
Malik, Inshah. 2018. “Gendered Politics of Funerary Processions: Contesting Indian Sovereignty in Kashmir.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Manecksha, Freny. 2017. Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children. New Delhi: Rupa Publications.
Misri, Deepti. 2014. “‘This Is Not a Performance’: Public Mourning and Visual Spectacle in Kashmir.” In Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Mehraj, Irfan. 2015. “Censorship in Kashmir: Through the Prism of Ocean of Tears.” Contributaria, June.
Mushtaq, Samreen. 2018. “Home as the Frontier.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Osuri, Goldie. 2018. “Reflections on Witnessing with the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Kashmir.” Feminist Review 119(1): 144-153.
Osuri, Goldie. 2018. “Sovereignty, Vulnerability, and a Gendered Resistance in Indian-Occupied Kashmir.” Third World Thematics 3(2): 228-243.

Pervez, Ayesha. 2015. “The Politics of Rape in Kashmir.” The Hindu, February 19.

Rafiq, Zahid. 2016. “Shadows of a Dark Night.” In Garrisoned Minds: Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia, edited by Laxmi Murthy and Mitu Varma. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger.
Rashid, Afsana. 2011. Widows and Half Widows: The Saga of Extra-judicial Arrests and Killings in Kashmir. New Delhi: Pharos Media and Publishing.
Yousuf, Shazia. 2016. ‘‘Widowhood of Shame.” In Garrisoned Minds: Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia, edited by Laxmi Murthy and Mitu Varma. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger.
Zia, Ather. 2016. “The Spectacle of a Good Half-Widow: Women in Search of Their Disappeared Men in the Kashmir Valley.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 39(2): 164–75.
Zia, Ather. 2019. Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
For Additional Readings, see Resource Guide for the Annual Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day Campaign, February 23, 2018.

WEEK 8: MAPPING SEXUAL VIOLENCE: FROM KUNAN POSHPORA TO SHOPIAN TO HANDWARA

Anjum, Aliya. 2018. “Moving from Impunity to Accountability: Women’s Bodies, Identity, and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Kashmir.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in the Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Batool, Essar, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid, and Natasha Rather. 2016. Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? New Delhi: Zubaan.
Batool, Essar. 2018. “Sexual Violence and Patriarchy in a Militarized State.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in the Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Boga, Dilnaz. 2017. “The Story I Never Got to Tell–of Rape and Torture by the Indian Army.” The Daily Vox, Feb. 4.
Boga, Dilnaz. 2016. “‘We Will Not Protest This Year’- A 2007 Report from Kunanposhpora.” Sanhati, April 6.
Chatterji Angana. 2012. “Witnessing as Feminist Intervention in India-Administered Kashmir.” In South Asian Feminisms, edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose. Durham: Duke University Press.
Duschinski, Haley and Bruce Hoffman. 2018. “Contesting Law, Contesting the State: Jurisdictional Authority of the Majlis-e-Mushawarat in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Fazili, Gowhar. 2014. “Localized Agitations in a Globalized Context: A Case Study of Shopian and Bomai.” In Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development, edited by Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Ghosh, Shrimoyee Nandini. 2014. “The Kunan Poshpora Mass Rape Case: Notes from a Hearing.” Warscapes, September 9.
Ghosh, Shrimoyee Nandini. 2016. “How a Kashmiri Girl’s Search for a Bathroom Became Truth vs. Lie, Us vs. Them and Patriot vs. Traitor.” The Ladies Finger, July 12.
Kazi, Seema. 2018. “Sexual Crimes and the Struggle for Justice in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mathur, Shubh. 2012. “This Garden Uprooted: Gendered Violence, Suffering and Resistance in Indian-Administered Kashmir.” In Gender, Power, and Military Occupations: Asia Pacific and the Middle East Since 1945, edited by Christine De Matos and Rowena Ward, 217–38. London: Routledge.
Shah, Nazia. 2018. “Kunan Poshpora 1991.” Wande Magazine, March 9.

WEEK 9: KASHMIRI PANDITS AND THE POLITICS OF HOMELAND

Ali, Agha Shahid. “A Pastoral.” Poetry Foundation.
Ali, Agha Shahid. “Farewell.”
Bhan, Mona. 2018. “The Pandit Across the Lidder.” Outlook, July 4, 2018.
Bhan, Mona, and Deepti Misri. 2016. “On the Limits of Reconciliation.” In Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal,edited by Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar, and Mallika Kaur, 242-244. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.
Datta, Ankur. 2017. On Uncertain Ground: Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Datta, Ankur. 2017. “Uncertain Journeys: Return Migration, Home and Uncertainty among a Displaced Kashmiri Community.” Modern Asian Studies 51(4): 1099-1125.
Duschinski, Haley. 2008. “’Survival Is Now Our Politics’: Kashmiri Hindu Community Identity and the Politics of Homeland.” International Journal of Hindu Studies 12(1): 41–64.
Kak, Sanjay. 2017. “What About the Kashmiri Pandits?” Review of Ankur Datta’s On Uncertain Ground: Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir. Raoit, June 20.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2017. “Kashmir: The Communalisation of a Political Dispute”, Al Jazeera, 26 July.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2016 “Kashmiri Pandits Are a Pawn in the Games of Hindutva Forces.” The Wire, January 7.
Kaul, Suvir. 2012. “A Time without Soldiers: Writing about Kashmir Today.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 38(2): 71-82.
Lone, Zubair. 2018. “The Ones Who Never Left: Kashmiri Pandits Who Chose To Live in The Valley.” News18, May 24.
Malhotra, Khushdeep Kaur. 2019. “On the Other Side of Exodus: The Case of Kashmiri Sikhs.” University of Pennsylvania Center for the Advanced Study of India, India in Transition blog, August 12.
Misri, Deepti and Mona Bhan. 2019. “Kashmiri Pandits Must Reimagine the Idea of Return to Kashmir.” Al Jazeera, August 10.
Pandita, Rahul. 2013. Our Moon Has Blood Clots. Noida: Random House India.
Parrey, Arif Ayaz. 2013. “The Imaginarium of Rahul Pandita.” Kindle, April 4.
Parrey, Arif Ayaz. 2016. “Perfect Enemy.” Raiot, January 27.
Puri, Anjali. 2011. “Haven’t We Met Before? A Facebook Group to Bring Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits Together Catches On.” Outlook India.
Rai, Mridu. 2011. “Kashmir: The Pandit Question.” Interview by Azad Essa. Al Jazeera, August 1.

WEEK 10: CLAIMING CULTURE, CONTESTING SPACES: STONE PELTING, ART, AND RAGDA

Amin, Mudasir and Iymon Majid. 2018. “Graffiti in Kashmir: Politicising the Street,” Economic & Political Weekly 53(14), April 7.
Baishya, Amit R. 2018. “Canine Representations in Malik Sajad’s Munnu.” Critical Kashmir Studies, November 25.
Baishya, Amit R. 2018. “Endangered (and Endangering) Species: Exploring the Animacy Hierarchy in Malik Sajad’s Munnu.” South Asian Review 39(1-2): 50-69.
Bhat, Javaid. 2019. Covering a Decade (2007-2017): Reflections on the Kashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs. Delhi: Authorspress.
Bhat, Mehraj. 2017. “Everyday Uprisings: An Overview of 2016 Uprising in Kashmir.” Cafe Dissensus 32, February 20,.
Dar, Huma. 2007. “Cinematic Strategies for a Porno-tropic Kashmir and Some Counter-archives.” Journal of Contemporary Thought 26: 77-110.
Ganai, Mohd Tahir. 2019. “Metaphors in the Political Narratives of Kashmiri Youth.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(2): 278-300.
Hassan, Khalid Wasim. 2018. “From Administration to Occupation: The Re-production and Subversion of Public Spaces in Kashmir.” Third World Thematics 3(2): 212-227.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2013. “Stone Wars.” Guernica, August
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara. “The Kashmiri as Muslim in Bollywood’s ‘New Kashmir Films.’” Contemporary South Asia 18(4): 373-385.
Kanjwal, Hafsa. 2019. “State Violence and Youth Resistance: Perspectives from Indian-Held Kashmir.” In Political Violence in South Asia, edited by Ali Riaz, Zobaida Nasreen, and Fahmida Zaman. New York: Routledge.
Kanjwal, Hafsa, Durdana Bhat, and Masrat Zahra. 2018. “‘Protest’ Photography in Kashmir: Between Resistance and Resilience.” In a special issue on Protest in Women’s Studies Quarterly 46(3-4), edited by Elena Cohen, Melissa Forbis and Deepti Misri: 85-99.
Kaul, Suvir. 2015. Of Gardens and Graves: Essays on Kashmir/Poems in Translation. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
Kramer, Max. 2017. “Mobilizing Conflict Testimony: A Lens of Mobility for the Study of Documentary Practices in the Kashmir Conflict.” Social Sciences 6(88).
Kramer, Max. 2018. “At the Limit of the Personal: The Kashmir Conflict via Explorations in the Ethical Space of Film.” Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 9(3): 289-30.
Misri, Deepti. 2019. “Showing Humanity: Violence and Visuality in Kashmir.” Cultural Studies 33: 527-549.
Osuri, Goldie. 2019. “#Kashmir 2016: Notes toward a Media Ecology of an Occupied Zone.” South Asian Popular Culture 17(2): 111-131.
Pandit, Idrisa. 2019. “Kashmir’s Children of War: Religion, Politics,and Non Violent Mobilization.” In Political Muslims: Understanding youth resistance in a global context, edited by T. Abbas and S. Hamid. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Pandit, Huzaifa. 2019. “Schools of Resistance: A Brief History of Student Activism in Kashmir.” Postcolonial Studies 22(1): 95-116.
Sharma, Sarbani. 2020. “Labouring for Kashmir’s Azadi: Ongoing Violence and Resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar.” Contributions to Indian Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719890525

WEEK 11: WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS

Achakzai, Khan Khawar. 2019. “Kaun Banega Crorepati: Version ‘Propaganda’”. Medium, July 14.
Ahmad, Wajahat. 2017. “Prongs of the State, Serving their Master.” Kashmir Ink, July 25.
Bhan, Mona. 2014. Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? London: Routledge.
Bhan, Mona. 2014. “Morality and Martyrdom: Dams, Dharma, and the Cultural Politics of Work in Kashmir.” Biography 37(1): 191–224.
Bhan, Mona. 2018. “In Search of the Aryan Seed: Race, Religion, and Sexuality in Kashmir.” In Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dar, Rouf, Umar Lateef Misgar, and Harun Lone. 2016. “IAS in Kashmir: Glorifying Occupation.” Kashmir Reader, May 14.
Hilal, Mir. 2017. “Why Does India Consistently Push the False Narrative of Radicalization in Kashmir?” Scroll, May 6.
Khalid, Wasim. 2018. “Politics of Building Narratives.” Dawn News. March 25.
Kumar, Amit. 2017. “Conflict and Suspicion in Kashmir.” Kashmir Ink, April 11.
Mushtaq, Samreen and Syed Rabia Bukhari. 2018. “Critique of Statist Narrative of Women’s Empowerment in Kashmir.” Economic & Political Weekly 53(2).

Qureshi, Burhan. 2019. “The New Mainstream and the Coming Counterrevolution in Kashmir.” Wande Magazine. March 20, 2019.
Rather, Nayeem. 2018. “Is India Trying to Subdue Kashmir through Religious Tourism?” TRT World. July 16, 2018.

Vijayan, Suchitra and Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan. 2019. “After Pulwama, the Indian media proves it is the BJP’s propaganda machine,” Washington Post, March 4.

WEEK 12: CLIMATE, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOLOGIES

Bauer, Andrew and Mona Bhan. 2018. Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene. London: Cambridge.
Bhan, Mona and Nishita Trisal. 2017. “Fluid Landscapes, Sovereign Nature: Conservation and Counterinsurgency in Kashmir.” Critique of Anthropology 37(2): 67-92.
Bhan, Mona. 2018. “Jinn, Floods, and Resistant Ecological Imaginaries in Indian Occupied-Kashmir.” In a special issue on Gender and Kashmir in Economic & Political Weekly 53(47), edited by Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia.
Dar, Zubair Ahmad. 2011-2012. “Power Projects in Jammu & Kashmir: Controversy, Law And Justice.” Harvard Law and International Development Society, Working Paper.
Kathjoo, Showkat. 2015. “The Memory of a Deluge and the Surface of Water.” E-flux Journal: The Social Commons, July 18.
Parvaiz, Athar. 2015. “Disaster in Conflict Zone, Conflict over Disaster.” The Third Pole, September 8.

Pirzadeh, Saba. 2018. “Topographies of Fear: War and Environmental Othering in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator and Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21(6): 892-907. .
Trisal, Nishita. 2017. “Improvising Demonetization in a Kashmiri Bank.” Society for Cultural Anthropology. Hot Spots: Special Series on Demonetization: Critical Responses to India’s Cash(/less) Experiment, September 27.

WEEK 13: IMAGINING FREEDOMS, SEEKING SOLIDARITIES

Ahmad, Eqbal, “A Kashmiri Solution to Kashmir”. Excerpts available.
Ali, Tariq, Hilal Bhatt, Angana P. Chatterji, Habbah Khatun, Pankaj Mishra, and Arundhati Roy, editors. 2011. Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. London: Verso.
Bazaz, Abir. 2002. Imagining Srinagar-Sarejevo. Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life: 127-129.
Boga, Dilnaz. 2010. “The People Are with Us: An Interview with Masarat Alam Bhat.” New Internationalist, September 14.
Chak, Farhan Mujahid. 2016. “Kashmir and the Myth of Indivisible India.” Al Jazeera English, September 28.
Essa, Azad. 2019. “When It Comes to Palestine and Kashmir, India and Israel are Oppressors-in-Arms.” Middle East Eye.
Fisk, Robert. 2019. “Israel is Playing a Big Role in India’s Escalating Conflict with Kashmir.” The Independent, 28 February 2019.
Geelani, Syed A.S. 2001. The Oppressed Nation. Srinagar: Talou Publications.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2017. “ State of the Tehreek: The Present and the Future.” Kashmir Ink, January 10.
Junaid, Mohamad. 2016. “A Kashmiri View of Pakistan: Solidarity Without Demands.” Tanqeed, October.
Kanjwal, Hafsa. 2019. “The Violence on Kashmir Is Epistemological as It Is Physical.” Jadaliyya, December 11.
Komal, Zunaira. 2019. “Civilian versus Militant: Kashmir, Islam and the Brewing Indo-Pak War.” Jadaliyya, March 6.
Malik, Yasin. 2004. “Fighting for an Independent Kashmir” (Interview) International Socialist Review, 37.
Osuri, Goldie. 2019. “Kashmir and Palestine: Itineraries of (Anti) Colonial Solidarity.” Identities. DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2019.1675334
Zia, Ather and Haley Duschinski. 2018. “Kashmir Quagmire: The Legend of UNO Sahab.” Outlook, July 4.

Week 14: ARTFUL RESISTANCE

Fiction

Bashir, Shahnaz. 2014. The Half Mother. Gurgaon: Hachette.
Bashir, Shahnaz. 2016. Scattered Souls. London: Fourth Estate.
Gigoo, Arvind. 2017. Gulliver in Kashmir: A Book of Cameos. Notion. (Excerpt here.)
Gigoo, Siddharth. 2010. The Garden of Solitude. Rupa.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2014. Residue. Rupa.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2020. Future Tense. Harper Collins India.
Rather, Feroz. 2018. The Night of Broken Glass. New Delhi: Harper Collins India.
Sajad, Malik. 2015. Munnu. London: Fourth Estate.
Qanungo, Nawaz Gul. 2017. Night Song. Juggernaut Books.
Waheed, Mirza. 2012. The Collaborator. London: Penguin.
Waheed, Mirza. 2014. The Book of Gold Leaves. London: Penguin.

Poetry

Ali, Agha Shahid. 2009. The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems. Norton.
Bhat, Javaid. 2017. Scars of Summer. Srinagar: Jay Kay Books.
Bhat, Javaid. 2017. Mourning Memories: Amaranth Row to the Year of Dead Eyes. Srinagar: Jay Kay Books.
Kathwari, Rafiq. 2015. In Another Country. Doire.
Pandit, Huzaifa. 2018. Green is the Colour of Memory. Srinagar: Hawakal Publishers.

Zahoor, Asiya. 2019. Serpents Under My Veil. Tethys. Excerpt here.
Zia, Ather. 2016. “‘They Want Us to Write. In Blood.’ Four Poems on Kashmir. Scroll.in, April 23.

Creative Nonfiction

Falak, Uzma. 2018. “The Last Call: Audio Postcards from Kashmir.” Warscapes, July 6.
Falak, Uzma. 2016. “Aleph Se Azadi.” Kindle, April 2.
Habib, Anjum Zamarud. 2011. Prisoner No. 100: An Account of My Nights and Days in an Indian Prison, translated by Sabha Husain. New Delhi: Zubaan.
Hunt, Alana. 2010-2017. “Cups of Nun Chai (2010-ongoing).” Alanahunt.net.
Kak, Sanjay, editor. 2011. Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir. Delhi: Penguin.
Kaul, N. (2013) “Everything I Cannot Tell You About The Women Of Kashmir”, The Kashmir Wallah, 7 December 2011.
Kanth, Idrees and Muhammad Tahir, editors. 2017. “Unmasking the Conflict: Making Sense of the Recent Uprisings in Kashmir.” Cafe Dissensus 32, February 20. Entire issue available here.
Khalid, Mir. 2017. Jaffna Street: Tales of Life, Death, Betrayal and Survival in Kashmir. New Delhi: Rupa Publications.
Maqbool, Majid. 2019. “Sowing What the Indian Army Reaps in Kashmir.” Asia Sentinel. May 23.
Maqbool, Majid. 2019. “The Guest.” Inverse Journal, February 4.
Nilofar. 2016. “Teach Me How to Write Azadi.” August 16.
Qazi, Fozia S. 2018. “Curfew Diary – Kashmir 2016.” In a special issue on Protest in Women’s Studies Quarterly 46 (3-4) edited by Elena Cohen, Melissa Forbis and Deepti Misri: 237-260.
Rather, Nayeem. 2017. “Short Vignettes of Life in Occupation.” Wande Magazine, December 4.
Rafiq, Zahid. 2010. “I Am a Pacifist: But Here’s Why I Want to Be a Stone-Pelter.” Countercurrents, August 21.
Waheed, Mirza and Uzma Falak. 2018. “Memory & (In) Justice: Cultures of Resistance #Kashmir.” Audio recordings, June 12-17.
Zia, Ather and Javaid Iqbal Bhat, editors. 2019. A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir. New Delhi: Harper Collins.

Photography

Ahmad, Mudabbir. 2019. “Shrukk: A Photo Essay.” Wande Magazine, January 22.
Kak, Sanjay, editor. 2017. Witness Kashmir 1986–2016: Nine Photographers. New Delhi: Yarbaal.
Kaul, Nitasha. 2017. “We Want Freedom: Kashmir, A Photo Essay.” Cafe Dissensus, August 15
Khan, Faisal. 2017. “Student Protests: A Photo Essay.” Wande Magazine. May 6.
Nanda, Showkat. 2014. “The Endless Wait.” Photographic Museum of Humanity.
Zahra, Masrat. 2018. “Strife: A Photo Essay”. Wande Magazine. February 23.

Documentary and Film

Ali, Sahil and Avalok Langer. 2016. Inside a Friday Protest, Part 1 and Part 2.

AlJazeera English. 2017. Kashmir: Born To Fight.
BBC Channel 4. 2012. Kashmir’s Torture Trail.

Boga, Dilnaz and Aliefya Vahanvaty. 2005. Invisible Kashmir: The Other Side of Jannat.
Dorabji, Tara and Jamie DeWolf. 2019. Here Still.
Essa, Azad. 2020. Out of Sight. AJE Short film.
Falak, Uzma. 2015. Till Then the Roads Carry Her.
Fatima, Iffat. 2013. Where Have You Hidden My New Moon Crescent?
Fatima, Iffat. 2015. Khoon Diy Barav [Blood Leaves Its Trail].
Fatima, Iffat. 2018. The Dear Disappeared.
Ghose, Rana and Baba Tamim. 2013. Take it in Blood.
Kaur, Sarvnik and Tushar Madhav. 2016. Soz: A Ballad of Melodies.
Kak, Sanjay. 2007. Jashn-e-Azaadi [How We Celebrate Freedom].
“Omar Abdullah Heckled By Kashmiri American Protesters At University Of Berkeley”
Sebastian, Shawn, and N.C. Fazil. 2016. In the Shade of the Fallen Chinar.
TRT. 2019. Kashmir: Fault lines in the Valley.

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS

Amnesty International. 2011. A ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions Under the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act.
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS). 2011. “Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir,” July.
FIDH. 2019. “Key Human Rights Issues of Concern in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir,” March.
International Commission of Jurists. 1995. “Human Rights in Kashmir: Report of a Mission.”
International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK). 2009. “Militarization with Impunity: A Brief on Rape and Murder in Shopian Kashmir,” July 19.
International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK). 2009. Buried Evidence: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in India-administered Kashmir.
International Peoples’ Tribunal for Human Rights and Justice in Indian Administered Kashmir (IPTK) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). 2012. “Alleged Perpetrators: Stories of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir,” December.
International Peoples’ Tribunal for Human Rights and Justice in Indian Administered Kashmir (IPTK) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). 2015. “Structures of Violence: The Indian State in Jammu and Kashmir,” September.
Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS). 2015. Occupational Hazard: The September Floods of Jammu and Kashmir, April.
Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) and EQUATIONS. 2017. Amarnath Yatra: A Militarized Pilgrimage, March.

Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). 2019. “Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir,” May.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2018. “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018, and General Human Rights Concerns in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.” Geneva, June 14.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2018. “Update of the Situation of Human Rights in Indian-Administered Kashmir and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir from May 2018 to April 2019.” Geneva, July 8.

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