Kashmir as a Borderland

Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas is a researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Her research focus is on the politics of the South Asian region, with an interest on borders and citizenship. She currently works on a project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) on migration from north-eastern Pakistan to the Gulf.|Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

• List of maps and figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 Kashmir: The Idea and its Parts Making the princely state: fixing borders and building a power centre in the Kashmir Valley Partition and the importance of taking sides Territorial integrity and transformation of the border space Conclusion Chapter 2 Conceptualizing a Borderland Approach to Kashmir The borderland Border roads: the contours of making state space Violence, social diversity and fragmentation Kashmir borderland as a distinct political space Conclusion Chapter 3 The Urban Areas Near the LoC (I): The 'Kashmir Issue' in Srinagar and Muzaffarabad Militarization of the urban Srinagar: the epicentre of conflict Muzaffarabad: the place of refuge and support of the Kashmir cause Conclusion Chapter 4 The Urban Areas Near the LoC (II): The 'Kashmir Issue' in Skardu and Kargil The specific position of Skardu as a non-Kashmiri and non-Pakistani location Kargil and the borders of the nation The dispute from the border urban areas: a conclusion Chapter 5 The Line... the People The opening of the LoC Border immobilities: separation across Kargil (Ladakh) and Baltistan Border work: normalizing the state space Conclusion Chapter 6 Belonging and the Politics of Belonging in the Kashmir Borderland The case of Ahmed Understanding belonging: space and identity Belonging across borders as claims to recognition Politics of belonging and world (b)ordering, Conclusion Acronyms, References, Index.