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Teaching Resources Essay

Teaching Kashmir through Documentary Films

by Abir Bazaz

The Kashmir dispute—one of the most intransigent political conflicts in Asia—has its beginnings in the end of British colonial rule over India and the subsequent Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, which left the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir divided into an Indian-administered region and a Pakistani-administered region.1 Some argue that the crisis has its origins in the British sale of Kashmir to Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1846 and the establishment of a feudatory Dogra state u...

Feature Article

India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Issue: 1947 and Beyond

by Chitralekha Zutshi

[caption id="attachment_21112" align="aligncenter" width="815"] Kashmir University Campus, with a view of the Hazratbal Mosque. Photo courtesy of Chitralekha Zutshi.[/caption] When I teach Kashmir in classrooms and lecture halls across the country, the questions I am most often asked are: What makes Kashmir special? Does it have natural resources that India and Pakistan covet? Both these and other related questions, of course, are designed to identify the underlying causes of the conflict bet...

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The Status of Women in South Asia

by Anne B. Waters

THE FIRST CHALLENGE CONFRONTING AN EDUCATOR CONCERNED WITH ENDURING STEREOTYPES OF SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IS WHERE TO START. SHOULD ONE BEGIN WITH THE STEREOTYPE OF SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN AS OPPRESSED BY RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICE, SUCH AS SATI OR DOWRY-MARRIAGE? OR THE STEREOTYPE OF SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN AS SAVVY POLITICAL LEADERS AND HEADS OF STATE? WHAT OF THE STEREOTYPED PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN’S LABOR-FILLED LIVES, TOILING IN FIELDS AND FACTORIES? OR THE CONTRASTING IMAGE OF SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN VEILED OR...

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