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ISBN 9789356996045|Hardcover|334 pages|2024|4th Estate

Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir is a comprehensive political biography of one of the most enigmatic and controversial politicians in modern South Asia.

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Author: Chitralekha Zutshi

9789356996045 | HC | pp. 334 | 2024 | 4th Estate

Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir is a comprehensive political biography of one of the most enigmatic and controversial politicians in modern South Asia.

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Written by the leading historian of modern Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir is a comprehensive political biography of one of the most enigmatic and controversial politicians in modern South Asia.

Abdullah (1905–1982) devoted much of his life to mobilizing Kashmiris to assert their rights, to trying to achieve a fair resolution for their politically contested state, to shaping its turbulent relationship with India, and to bridging the divide between India and Pakistan. Although he successfully forged ties with the Indian National Congress, his support for Kashmir’s accession to India and his advocacy for a more autonomous position for the state within the Indian Union complicated his relationship to India and led to his fall from grace, arrest, and imprisonment. In 1975 he reached a compromise with India that alienated generations of Kashmiris for whose self-determination he had long fought. The people of Kashmir, India, and Pakistan continue to grapple with and contest his legacy.

Zutshi’s rigorously researched and elegantly crafted portrayal brings this complex figure to life and offers a window onto the political fissures of twentieth-century South Asia more broadly.

The book is the second in the “Indian Lives” series, whose series editor is Ramchandra Guha.

Author:

Chitralekha Zutshi
ISBN:

9789356996045
Binding:

Hardcover
Pages:

334
Year of Publication:

2024
Publisher:

4th Estate
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Chitralekha Zutshi is Class of 1962 Professor of History at William & Mary, Virginia, where she specializes in the history of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Her areas of expertise include nationalism, regional and religious identities, and traditions of historical thought and writing, with a particular focus on Kashmir. Her previous books include Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir (2003-04); Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination (2014); Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation (2018); and Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions (2019).

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