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nThe Indian government, touted as the worlds largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir--its only Muslim-majority state--is an integral part of India. The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the worlds most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was made integral to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri, Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended consequences of Bakshis state-building policies in the context of Indias colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government tailored its policies to integrate Kashmirs Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension, corruption, and political repression.n nChallenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes Indias occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question triumphalist narratives of Indias state-formation, as well as the sovereignty claims of the modern nation-state.n
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