Ali, Nosheen <br/><br/>
Delusional states :  feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier / 
Nosheen Ali 
 - India  Cambridge University Press  2019 
 - 304 p. 
<br/><br/> Delusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For over seven decades, the territorial conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centred nationalisms. The book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror - that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground. Placing these emotions at the centre of its analysis, the book rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a multi-layered ethnographic understanding of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781108497442 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pakistan--Gilgit-Baltistān<br/>Pakistan--Gilgit District<br/>Pakistan--Baltistān District<br/>Politics and government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.9130 ALI-N