The Collaborator Mirza Waheed Partitions traces the year

The Collaborator Mirza Waheed

Partition’s traces “the year of partitions and pogroms and general ruination” (182) “that wellspring of all bloodshed in our parts” (241)

Kashmir: An extremely short history 1947: India is partitioned into India and Pakistan (the Radcliffe Line); Kashmir accedes to India; Pakistan invades Kashmir and Kashmir breaks up into Azad Kashmir (Pakistani) and the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. 1971: Establishment of the Line of Control 1989: Beginning of armed insurgency (JKLF outflanked by Hizb-ul. Mujahedeen—Kashmir as part of a larger jihad) 2007: Beginning of a civil uprising—the many meanings of azadi 2019: Article 370 that gave special status to Kashmir abrogated; media blackout; army control

The Radcliffe Line

Line of control

Jashn-e-azadi

Shalimar Bagh (1619) “If there is Paradise on earth, it is this, it is this. " Jahangir, Mughal Emperor

Mughal miniature paintings

Colonial archive

Kashmir’s cultural capital

Kashmir ki Kali (the flower of Kashmir)

Mission Kashmir

The border

Whose borders? In the border areas, you see, it was a very confusing time—we didn’t know how things could change between today and tomorrow, between morning and evening (27).

King Ashoka and the Battle of Kalinga (262 BCE)

Rafi, “Din dhal jaaye” (song of unrequited love) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Hrbzf. LFj 6 Es

Kunan-Poshpura mass rapes

Mothers of disappeared persons

Rafi’s songs https: //youtu. be/Vi. QRCVr. RHg 0 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Hrbzf. LFj 6 Es