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
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