Kashmir

For most of the year 2002, the contiguous, nuclear-armed nation-states of India and Pakistan faced off in a circumstance of near-war. During this period, the people of both countries continued to suffer from environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious …

This dissertation is based on fieldwork in West Yorkshire, archival research in India and the United Kingdom, and human rights work in Kashmir. It examines the emergence of the Kashmiri diaspora between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries within moments of Kashmiri struggl…