1st Edition
The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir
By Malvika Sharma
Copyright 2025
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pir-Panjals , the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity. Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidity embodied by folds of Panjals. These folds encapsulated social, cultural, and religious plurality within the principalities that thrived here. The Partition of 1947 profoundly altered this by... Read more
List of Illustrations, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Partitioned Ethnicities and Emergent Borderlands: The Rola of Santaali, Chapter 2: Ethnic Plurality, Religious Assertion and the Everyday: The Past Through the Present, Chapter 3: Cultural Religious Plurality and the Sikh Faith, Chapter 4: Caste, Marginality and the Dalit-Religion, Conclusion, Annexure, Index.
Biography
Malvika Sharma is currently a Nehru-Fulbright Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Religion, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, U.S. She has previously worked at Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi. She has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research work has appeared in key journals such as H.A.U. the Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, among others.
