Of Gardens and Graves
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Of Gardens and Graves

Kashmir, Poetry, Politics

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Of Gardens and Graves

Kashmir, Poetry, Politics

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In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Kaul's autobiographical and analytical essays, which were prompted by his yearly visits to Kashmir, are a combination of political analysis, literary criticism, memoir, and journalistic observation. In them he explores Kashmir's pre- and post-Partition history, the effects of militarization, state repression, the suspension of civil rights on Kashmiris, and the challenge Kashmir represents to the practice of democracy in India. The volume also features translations of Kashmiri poetry written in these years of conflict. These poems constitute an archive of heightened feelings and desires that affectively interrogate official accounts of Kashmir while telling us much about those who face extraordinary political turbulence and violence. Of Gardens and Graves also contains a photo essay by Javed Dar, whose photographs work together with Kaul's essays and the poems to represent the interweaving of ordinary life, civic strife, and spectacular violence in Kashmir.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9780822373506
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Poems
  8. Essay 1: Visiting Kashmir, Re-learning Kashmir
  9. Poems
  10. Essay 2: “My Paradise Is Burnin’ …”
  11. Poems
  12. Essay 3: The Witness of Poetry
  13. Poems
  14. Essay 4: Indian Empire (and the Case of Kashmir)
  15. Poems
  16. Coda: A Time without Soldiers
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index