Book Talk | Colonizing Kashmir: State Building Under Indian Occupation

Qalam Pakistan Initiative at History Department, Center for the Study
of Muslim Societies, and South Asia Institute present:

Book Talk: Colonizing Kashmir: State Building Under Indian Occupation
(Stanford University Press, 2023) with Hafsa Kanjwal and Mohamad Junaid

When: Oct 4th, 2023 at 4pm
Where: Fayerweather Hall 411

Hafsa Kanjwal is an Assistant Professor of South Asian History in the Department of
History at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on the history
of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern
World. As a historian of modern Kashmir, she is the author of
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford
University Press, 2023), which examines how the Indian and Kashmir
governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial
occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition. Hafsa has written
and spoken on her research for a variety of news outlets including The
Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and the BBC.

Mohamad Junaid is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. His current book project, titled
“Rebel Dreams: Postcolonial Empire and Political Subjectivity in
Kashmir,” is an ethnographic account of the post-1947 movement for
self-determination in Indian-controlled Kashmir. His essays on
contemporary politics in South Asia have also appeared in Al-Jazeera,
TRT World, and Guernica.