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Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

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(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Hafsa Kanjwal
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.

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Sovereignty and Silence in Modern India

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Matthew Shutzer
April 9, 2025

Kanjwal’s book seeks to imagine a social world outside the varied bonds and discourses of states.

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The Politics of Life as a Colonial Governmentality: The Bakshi Regime and the Indian Occupation of Kashmir

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Amen Jaffer
April 2, 2025

Understanding politics of life as a colonial governmentality directs attention to the desires, interests, and motivations that the Bakshi regime sought to produce in Kashmiri subjects.

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Indian Occupation in Kashmir: From State Building to Dismantling the State

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Ather Zia
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

The reduction of Kashmiris into simplistic tropes reinforces a colonizer-colonized dynamic, one which has enabled the Indian state to justify its control over the region.

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Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Joshua S. Lupo
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?

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