KASHMIR MASTERLIST
Background
- History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir’s multi religious history and how we got to 1947]
- Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]
- Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]
- Another concise summary of the issue
Sites to check out
- Kashmir Action - news and readings
- The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir
- FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous
- Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir
- Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris [both Pandit and Muslim]
- These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also have explainers on the background (x) (x)
To read
- Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces
- Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination [available on libgen]
- Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made “integral” to the Indian state and examines state-building policies [excerpt]
- Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India’s occupation [available on libgen]
- Of Occupation and Resistance - another collation of stories of Kashmiris living under state repression
- On India’s scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)
- Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems
Social media
- kashiirkoor
- museumofkashmir
- kashmirpopart
- posh_baahar
- readingkashmir
- standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 [their main account is banned in India. I wonder why!]
- kashmirlawjustice
- kashmirawareness
- kashmirarchive
- jammugenocide [awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS]
To watch
- Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle [filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit]
- Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan’s dispute over the valley has affected the people
- Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties
- In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance
Human rights violations (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
A note: The list of readings is not exhaustive. It is only an introduction to the history of the occupation. I know annoying “Desis” are going to see this and bitch and moan about how Kashmir is actually integral to their country out of a sense of colonial entitlement. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will entertain neither dumbfuckery nor whataboutism. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the state enacts on Kashmiris. I’ve also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally & linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the way Kashmiri women are fetishised… yikes). It’s not just a bilateral issue between the two nations over land, it actually affects the people of Kashmir
(via star-dwelling)
