TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali, Nosheen
TI  - Delusional states: feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier 
SN  - 9781108497442
U1  - 954.9130 ALI-N 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - India
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Pakistan--Gilgit-Baltistān
KW  - Pakistan--Gilgit District
KW  - Pakistan--Baltistān District
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
ER  -