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Nyla Ali Khan's subject, Akbar Jehan, was a political activist and the wife of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Kashmiri nationalist and first Muslim Prime Minister of the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. The author employs oral testimonies and relies on written resources to add layers of understanding to the events that shaped the history of Kashmir. In this hybrid of memoir and auto/ biography, the author has also interspersed her memories with descriptions of historical and political events in which Akbar Jehan and her husband were principal political players.

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Each volume in the "Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature" series contains a representative and wide-ranging selection of drama, poetry and prose extracted from the literature of English, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The items are arranged chronologically, and supported by full notes and biographical details of the authors. The writers represented in this volume show the diversity of writing in our times, from Thomas Hardy to Philip Larkin, G.B.Shaw to Tom Stoppard, and Henry James to Iris Murdoch. It also includes fantasy by P.G.Wodehouse, satires by Saki, letters by Virginia Woolf and speeches by Winston Churchill.

Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of her generation to reconceptualize woman's identity in a politically militarized zone. An academic memoir, this book succinctly brings together the history, politics, and culture of Kashmir.