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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Kashmir"”.
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The Conflict in Kashmir
… in 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, could not decide whether to join India or Pakistan. When he finally agreed to accede to India, his decision was immediately contested by Pakistan. Hence, for over fifty years India and Pakistan have fought over Jammu and Kashmir on the …
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Violence against Women in Kashmir: Personal and Political
… of interpersonal violence against women in Kashmir due to a larger focus on political violence, both within the community and in academia, as well. A detailed examination of various forms of violence(s) faced by women has been carried out throughout the thesis, some of which has not even …
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Grey zones: performances, perspectives, and possibilities in Kashmir
… across the'victim'/'perpetrator' binary in the Kashmir valley; a binary that is framed in this project as a tripartite division between Civil Society, Militants/Ex-Militants, and the Indian Armed Forces. Using Primo Levi's (1988) concept of "grey zones" to investigate how narratives from these …
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Women, Craft and the Post Conflict Reconstruction of Kashmir
… towards the knowledge of post conflict crafts of Kashmir and the role women play in this sector. It proposes crafts to be a culturally relevant activity which could generate income for people living in Kashmir. It analyses the impact of the conflict on the crafts of Kashmir from the perspective of …
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Abhinavagupta's Portrait of a Guru: Revelation and Religious Authority in Kashmir
This dissertation aims to recover a model of religious authority that placed great importance upon individual gurus who were seen to be indispensable to the process of revelation. This person-centered style of religious authority is implicit in the teachings and identity of the scriptural sources …
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Self-determination and human rights : a study of the Kashmir issue
Self-determination is commonly defined as peoples‘ free will to choose the course of their national life. The United Nation‘s (UN) Charter was adopted in 1945 to ensure the right to self-determination of all peoples as a means of maintaining international peace and security. Since then, the UN has …
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The Conflict in Kashmir: Down the Corridor of Uncertainty and Unrest
<p>Control over the region of Kashmir has been a contentious issue for the past fifty-six years. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 led to the separation of Pakistan from India, and all princely states on the subcontinent were ordered to accede to either India or Pakistan according to …
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Landslide Susceptibility Zonation GIS for the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake affected region
The October 8, 2005 Kashmir earthquake triggered several thousand landslides throughout the Himalaya of northern Pakistan and India. A spatial database, which included 2252 landslides, was developed and analyzed using ASTER satellite imagery and geographical information system (GIS) technology. A …
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Landslide Susceptibility Zonation GIS for the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake affected region
The October 8, 2005 Kashmir earthquake triggered several thousand landslides throughout the Himalaya of northern Pakistan and India. A spatial database, which included 2252 landslides, was developed and analyzed using ASTER satellite imagery and geographical information system (GIS) technology. A …
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Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
… and heretofore untranslated Sanskrit text from Kashmir. This thesis not only provides the first English translation and close reading of selections from the text, it uses the Devīstotra along with current research on its literary, cultural, and political contexts to illustrate the functions of …
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Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
… designation used to localise emergency powers in Kashmir and Northern Ireland. It focuses on the designation as a political euphemism, and on the ways literary texts reconstitute the realities and lived experiences that these legal instruments elide. The study covers a wide range of fiction, …
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Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir
… history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course of these literary hymns in Kashmir from the ninth century to the present. Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… in which young activists in Indian-administered Kashmir, caught in chronic conditions of state violence and traversed by transnational discourses of identity, experience precarity while desperately seeking to constitute themselves as political subjects through their involvement in …
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Reporting Kashmir: an analysis of the conflict coverage in Indian and Pakistani newspapers.
… This India-centric study examines the Kashmir conflict in this context. While the coverage of more recent conflicts such as the Gulf Wars and the 'War on Terror' in Afghanistan has evoked sustained scrutiny from media scholars, there is little empirical work on the news on Kashmir. The …
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Rivers without a Territory: Indus Waters Treaty, 1960 and the Erasure of Kashmir
… of state-making in South Asia, showing how Kashmir—usually framed through Hindu-Muslim relations—was reduced to a natural resources unit to be managed between India, Pakistan, and the World Bank. Therefore, I puncture narratives which celebrate international law as a functional …
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What happens between the taq and the Old City of Srinagar in Kashmir?
… on both Traditional Crafts and Architecture in Kashmir as individual and separate topics of study, but this thesis study helps to look at them as cohesive and mutually supportive elements of the traditional built environment in the urban context of the Old City of Srinagar. It explores those …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
The 2005 Kashmir Earthquake is illustrative of the intensity and scope associated with catastrophic earthquake disasters in mountainous regions. Risk reduction and vulnerability are a common thread linking each of the chapters in this work. Community members in mountainous regions of Central Asia …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
The 2005 Kashmir Earthquake is illustrative of the intensity and scope associated with catastrophic earthquake disasters in mountainous regions. Risk reduction and vulnerability are a common thread linking each of the chapters in this work. Community members in mountainous regions of Central Asia …
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