The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy,
often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority
state-is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed
between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most
militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy five
years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was
made "integral" to India through a study of the decade long rule
(1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of
the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of
bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary
sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri,
Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended
consequences of Bakshi's state-building policies in the context of
India's colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government
tailored its policies to integrate Kashmir's Muslims while also
showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension,
corruption, and political repression. Challenging the binaries of
colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes India's occupation
of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development,
normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of
power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of
decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question triumphalist
narratives of India's state-formation, as well as the sovereignty
claims of the modern nation-state.
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