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The Land I Dream Of: The Story of Kashmir's Women

Manisha Sobhrajani

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Description:In any conflict, the worst affected are always the women…The narrative around the Jammu-and-Kashmir insurgency continuesto be built around the role of freedom fighters, insurgents and politicians– all of them, not surprisingly, men. Yet, women have played anextraordinary role in the history of Kashmir, in retaining Kashmiriyat– that long-forgotten ideal of mutual co-existence. Equally, as mothers,daughters, widows, fighters, martyrs and mujahids, they havebeen inseparable from the four-decade-old conflict.In The Land I Dream of, researcher Manisha Sobhrajani documentsher encounters with women from disparate backgrounds acrossthe troubled state. A Kashmiri Pandit forced into exile as a child; amother-figure battling the establishment to give hope to thousandslike her whose men have disappeared; an eighty-year-old who trainedto fight tribal invaders in 1947 as part of Kashmir’s first women-onlymilitia; and young Muslim women empowering themselves throughentrepreneurship – the lives she chronicles bear witness not just to thesuffering and apathy Kashmiri women have had to endure but also totheir strength in the face of it all.Combining individual recollection with journalistic endeavour,this searingly personal account of loss and despair and equally ofhope and optimism is a testament to the resilience of the women inone of the world’s most fractious regions.'We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Land I Dream Of: The Story of Kashmir's Women. To get started finding The Land I Dream Of: The Story of Kashmir's Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 190

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Hachette India

Release: 2014

ISBN: 9350095998

Description: In any conflict, the worst affected are always the women…The narrative around the Jammu-and-Kashmir insurgency continuesto be built around the role of freedom fighters, insurgents and politicians– all of them, not surprisingly, men. Yet, women have played anextraordinary role in the history of Kashmir, in retaining Kashmiriyat– that long-forgotten ideal of mutual co-existence. Equally, as mothers,daughters, widows, fighters, martyrs and mujahids, they havebeen inseparable from the four-decade-old conflict.In The Land I Dream of, researcher Manisha Sobhrajani documentsher encounters with women from disparate backgrounds acrossthe troubled state. A Kashmiri Pandit forced into exile as a child; amother-figure battling the establishment to give hope to thousandslike her whose men have disappeared; an eighty-year-old who trainedto fight tribal invaders in 1947 as part of Kashmir’s first women-onlymilitia; and young Muslim women empowering themselves throughentrepreneurship – the lives she chronicles bear witness not just to thesuffering and apathy Kashmiri women have had to endure but also totheir strength in the face of it all.Combining individual recollection with journalistic endeavour,this searingly personal account of loss and despair and equally ofhope and optimism is a testament to the resilience of the women inone of the world’s most fractious regions.'We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Land I Dream Of: The Story of Kashmir's Women. To get started finding The Land I Dream Of: The Story of Kashmir's Women, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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