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Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration
Author:
Christopher Snedden
ISBN:
9789395474047
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2025
Pages:
456 with 11 tables and 2 maps
Size:
16 x 24 x 4 cm
Weight:
851 grams
Price:
INR
2995
2696.00
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About the Book
Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent.Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Maharaja Hari Singh’s leadership in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. As tensions continue to rise following government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?
About the Author
Christopher Snedden
Christopher Snedden is an Australian political scientist, politico-strategic analyst, academic researcher and author.
Editorial Reviews
“
Parting Gifts of Empire
brilliantly brings to light anti-imperialist forms of knowledge produced by Middle Eastern and Indian intellectuals preceding and following decolonization. Instead of engaging in a customary examination of the bilateral colonizer-colonized relations, it turns its eye on South-South interactions to show that Palestine figured prominently in a range of spheres—in philosophical writings and translations, academic meetings, and political, diplomatic, and women activists’ conferences. This is a timely and much-needed reminder that the question of the colonial oppression of Palestine is not new but has long been an expression of anticolonial thought and politics.”
—Gyan Prakash, author of
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point
“This remarkable intellectual history uncovers the writings of unjustly forgotten Arab and South Asian writers, academics, and activists who produced a counternarrative opposing colonial and imperial discourse on the non-European world. This book reminds us of the roots of that discourse in inequality and hegemony, and of early attempts to challenge it during the era of decolonization.”
—Rashid Khalidi, author of
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“A pathbreaking account of intellectual worlds of anticolonial thought that spanned the Middle East and South Asia. Esmat Elhalaby marshals a vast array of ideas about anticolonialism and decolonization produced by scholars, polyglot writers, poets, and feminist intellectuals who imagined new liberatory futures across geographies.
Parting Gifts of Empire
is a stunning history of ideas and a passionate account of a lost network of thinkers, a book that simultaneously reclaims a shared history of knowledge and challenges us to articulate new visions of justice for our present.”
—Durba Mitra, author of
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
“
Parting Gifts of Empire
is beautifully written, brilliantly conceived, and replete with exciting ideas and innovative invitations. This is the kind of book that you start and can’t put down.”
—Sherene Seikaly, author of
Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of imperialist propaganda passing as universal knowledge. Esmat Elhalaby’s elegant study proves that anticolonial thought ushered in an intellectual revolution as cataclysmic as the Enlightenment. Arab and Asian thinkers, facing neocolonial reaction, partition, and layers of European condescension, plotted together to create new ideas dedicated to creating a new world. The work remains unfinished, but the gift of this book and its author offers a portal for us to continue our struggle.”
—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
“Starting from the twin partitions of India and Palestine, memorably called ‘a parting gift of empire’ by Edward Said, Esmat Elhalaby narrates a riveting social history of intellectuals in the colonized world. This brilliant book should be essential reading for all historians of anticolonialism and decolonization.”
—Omnia El Shakry, author of
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
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