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Languages of belonging : Islam, regional identity, and the making of Kashmir
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- Geography
- 2004
Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have… Expand
“Designed for eternity”: Kashmiri Shawls, Empire, and Cultures of Production and Consumption in Mid-Victorian Britain
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- History
- 1 April 2009
T his quote, from an 1865 article in Once a Week, draws attention to a I rarely examined interconnection between the fashion for Kashmiri shawls B in Victorian Britain and the rather intense… Expand
Translating the Past: Rethinking Rajatarangini Narratives in Colonial India
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- History
- 1 February 2011
The status of Kalhana's poem Rajatarangini was mediated in colonial India in part through its English translations. However, the intent of the translations has been insufficiently analyzed in the… Expand
Whither Kashmir Studies?: A Review
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- History
- 1 July 2012
This paper explores the current state of the field of Kashmir Studies and argues that, whilst scholarship on Kashmir has come a long way since the decades after Indian independence and partition, the… Expand
Resisting Occupation in Kashmir. Edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. vi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9780812249781 (cloth).
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- History
- 1 August 2019
Landscapes of the Past: Rajatarangini and Historical Knowledge Production in Late-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir
- Chitralekha Zutshi
- Geography
- 2011
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir rarely figures as a site for the study of colonial knowledge production, particularly as it related to the construction of India’s historical past. I would… Expand