Witnessing as Feminist Intervention in India-Administered Kashmir

Chatterji, Angana P.

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“…There must have been a logic behind security forces not firing live bullets during the Patidar and, more recently, Dalit agitations in Gujarat. (Singh, 2016) Zia, 2014;Chatterji, Buluswar and Kaur, 2016); or draw attention to how issues of gender are personally experienced by Kashmiri women and the feminist labour of witnessing (see Dewan, 1994;Butalia, 2002;Kanjwal, 2011;Chatterji, 2012;Kaul, 2013a). Another line of analysis examines the way in which militant women activists, such as Asiya Andrabi (founder of Dukhtaran-e-Millat) 6 and others, have participated in the conflict and resistance as active agents, rather than as passive victims, highlighting their complex relationship with feminism and religion (see Jeffery and Basu, 1999;Khan, 2009;Parashar, 2009Parashar, , 2011Marino, 2010;Malik, 2013).…”

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India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism

Kaul

2018

Feminist Review

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This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multifaceted dehumanisation of Kashmiris and, in turn, domesticates dissent on the question of Kashmir within India. This scenario has been enabled by the persuasive appeal of a gendered masculinist nationalist neoliberal state; currently enhanced in its Hindutva avatar. My focus is on understanding how the violence enacted upon the Kashmiri bodies is connected to feminised understanding of the body of Kashmir in India's imagination of itself as a nation-state. I argue that the gendered discourses of representation, cartography and possession are central to the way in which such nationalism works to legitimise and normalise the violence in Kashmir. I conclude with a few reflections on how Kashmir is a litmus test for the discourse on (anti)nationalism in contemporary India.

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