Resisting Occupation in Kashmir is a significant intervention in the literature on the insurgency in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has been raging for three decades now and shows no signs of abating. Scholarship on the subject has rarely addressed its meaning and monumental consequences for the people of Kashmir, which has led to a dim understanding of why and how ordinary Kashmiris have resisted and continue to resist the Indian state. This edited volume probes the military, legal, cultural, territorial, cartographic, discursive, and other forms of occupation practiced by the Indian government in the state, and the equally myriad forms of protest and resistance to this oppression carried out by Kashmiris.
These forms of state occupation, the introduction by Mona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, and Ather Zia argues, are carried out “as much through electoral democracy as … through intensive militarization and institutionalized impunity” (p. 8), which...
