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A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations. Literary historian Ananya Jahanara Kabir finds an answer to this question in the Valley of Kashmir's repeated portrayal as a "special" place and the missing piece of Pakistan and India. Analyzing the conversion of natural bea

Author

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816653577

Subjects

History, Humanities