Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?
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The Dawn of A New Era: What Lies Ahead For Bangladesh’s Youth?
Bangladesh stands at a crossroads, experiencing what many call a “second liberation” after the ignominious exit of Sheikh Hasina, its long-serving…
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The (National) Fantasies of Hope: Rethinking the 2024 Indian Elections
The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.
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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism
Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.
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Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)
Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.
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The Hindu Rashtra Comes of Age
In context of rising institutionalization of discrimination against Muslims, Kashmiris fear that Indian settler colonialism and dispossession are becoming increasingly real inside the valley. The question now is: will the world keep silent?
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What is so Special about Kashmir’s Special Status?
Though the Hindu and Muslim religious cultures in India and Pakistan offer us fantasies of Kashmir as either a sacred Hindu space or a lost Muslim paradise, the actual Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim religious culture affirms Kashmir as a heterodox and plural spiritual space.
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In Pursuit of Truth: Science, Tradition, and Renewal
Series: Madrasa Discourses
While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?
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