LANGUAGES OF BELONGING. Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir. [Hardcover]

Chitralenka: Zutshi (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Pan (1999)
• ASIN: B000W33FZM
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Deeply flawed analysis of recent Kashmir history, July 26, 2006

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This review is from: Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir (Hardcover)

To understand the `making of Kashmir', it is important to discover the spirit and soul of this land with a history going back thousands of years.A scholar concerned with only a fragment of this long history must still take a holistic perspective in order to identify the unique character of the land.This book is a scholarly study of a relatively recent period in the history of Kashmir(1846-1953),the period of Dogra rule An overall perspective has not been provided and the reader has no opportunity to understand even the bare essentials of Hindu,Buddhist , Islamic and Sikh periods . Zutshi has glossed over or ignored evidence supporting the rich tradition of tolerance and mutual respect between Hindus and Muslims which survived several periods of persecution of the Kashmir Pandit minority.Based partly on unreliable sources and partly on flawed interpretation, Zutshi has made sweeping ,unresearched statements about the post-1953 period which is,in any case, outside the scope of the project.Consequently,a strong bias in favour of minority separatists permeates the book.

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