Kashmir : exposing the myth behind the narrative / Khalid Bashir Ahmad
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- 9789386062802
- 954.60072 AHM-K
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BITS Pilani Hyderabad | 900-999 | General Stack (For lending) | 954.60072 AHM-K (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33794 |
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954.6 ZIA-A Desolation called peace : | 954.6 ZUT-C Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination / | 954.6005 ROY-A Azadi : freedom, fascism, fiction / | 954.60072 AHM-K Kashmir : | 954.604 HIN-A Unravelling the Kashmir knot / | 954.6053 GAN-S Deadly impasse : | 954.75 SPO-H Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India / |
The advent of Islam in medieval Kashmir gave birth to a narrative that describes forcible mass conversion of Hindus, eviction of aborigines and wanton demolition of religious symbols. A minority of Kashmiri Brahmans and their progeny who did not convert to Islam built and successfully perpetuated this narrative over the centuries. In the course of time, new elements were added to it. Following the eruption of armed insurgency in Kashmir and mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, this community narrative has turned into the Indian mainstream view on Kashmiri Pandits.</br>Kashmir: Exposing the Myth behind the Narrative challenges the existing narrative through historical facts and cross-referencing. It exposes many fallacies used to uphold this narrative and dissects the work of historians that has sustained ahistorical perceptions over a long period of time. The book links history to the present and facilitates an understanding of the situation today.
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