A Fate Written on Matchboxes - Couverture souple

Hafsa Kanjwal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8195838545 ISBN 13 : 9788195838547

Editeur : Navayana Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2023

Synopsis

In 1953, Sheikh Abdullah, the first prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was jailed for being too ‘anti-India’. His deputy Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed then took the reins, and was tasked with securing Kashmir’s contested accession to India.

A Fate Written on Matchboxes tells the story of Bakshi’s ten-year client regime and the varying modes of control and governance it deployed. His “politics of life” foregrounded the day-to-day concerns of employment, subsidized rations, free education, and basic services while questions of self-determination were suppressed. To integrate and empower Kashmiris, Bakshi often doled out jobs by writing appointments on matchboxes and slips of paper.

Drawing on bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews, Hafsa Kanjwal shows us how Bakshi’s theory of politics and state-building was marked by tension, corruption, and repression. This decade in Kashmir’s post–1947 history entrenched Indian rule. As Jawaharlal Nehru had once told Abdullah, “India would bind Kashmir in golden chains.” However, it also paved the way for local resistance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Navayana Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8195838545
• ISBN 13: 9788195838547
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible