Do You Even Know About Kashmir?

Do you Even Know (about) Kashmir?

Kashmir has always been an “issue.” It hasn’t been a place in our minds. It hasn’t been people for Mainland Indians. Everyone in Mainland India has an opinion on Kashmir, a one-liner they swear by. But no one has striven to actually know what goes on in the valley. The amount of misleading information, misinterpretation of history and just the lack of knowledge amongst Indians about Kashmir is telling. It speaks for how we have never cared. There has been no ethics of caring. No real, material, historical rootedness to this place in terms of empathy. This gap has given way to what we witness today. This gap between information and reality, between people and issues, between politics and the everyday. This document is a collection of people who have cared, and we didn’t listen to. Of people who continue to live the issues we write about, opinionate about. Politics is an act of caring about those whose lives go uncared for and become a bedrock of our knowledge only in their oppression.

Ground Report: Tabish Rafiq

Sos Kashmir Blog

The Kashmir Syllabus

Breaking Down: Article 370 and Article 35A

1. Article 370 of the Indian Constitution: A Genesis
2. What Article 35A implies
3. The Article 370 Amendments: Key Legal Issues
4. Explained: What are Articles 370 and 35A?
5. Article 370: Law and politics
6. What is Article 370? What does its revocation mean for J&K, and other Indian states?
7. Did Govt Actually Revoke Article 370? Can the Order be Challenged?
8. Article 370 Revoked: A Legal Viewpoint
9. Constitution Torn to Shreds as RSS Indulges Article 370 Fantasy in Kashmir
10. What Ambedkar Had Really Said About Kashmir Issue? Fake Quote Alert!
11. AND KASHMIRIS SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE TO EXIST
12. Kashmir Explainer: From Article 370 to Article 3, Modi-Shah Upend the Constitution
13. Article 370, Federalism and the Basic Structure of the Constitution
14. Article 370 has not been abrogated or repealed yet: Then what has the President of India done?
15. #BeyondTheHeadlines | Article 370: How Legal Is the Centre’s Assault on Kashmir’s Status
16. Reading List Compiled by EPW
17. Kashmir: Why Amit Shah’s ‘Development’ Argument is a Hoax
18. Of Tokenism and Misplaced Trust: How BJP uses the Kashmiri Pandit Card
19. Prabhat Pattnaik on Article 370 and Kashmir Land Reforms
20. Kashmir Solidarity Group Report
21. History of Betrayals in Kashmir

Twitter and Social Media Threads/People You Need To Follow

1. Hafsa Matto: https://twitter.com/mattohafsa/status/1158260662839185408
2. Ahmer Khan: https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan
3. Zafar Iqbal: https://twitter.com/szaffariqbal
4. Mirza Saaib Bég: https://www.facebook.com/saaib.mirza/posts/10220811361140875 and

https://www.facebook.com/saaib.mirza/videos/10220826087749031/

And

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10220841396331736&id=1443820338&preview_rid=10220842036947751

1. With Kashmir: https://twitter.com/withkashmir_?lang=en
2. Toufiq Rashid: https://twitter.com/ToufiqRashid
3. Jugal R Purohit: https://twitter.com/jugalrp/status/1158538181639323648
4. Hafsa Kanjwal: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10102832621949715&id=1404828&ref=m_notif&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

And

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1979234442385885&id=1478914319084569

1. Shah Faesal: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157444195263351&id=528278350
2. K: https://mobile.twitter.com/rhiyad_e_dehr/status/1159085325983059968?s=21
3. Young People for Politics:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0-gkdhJVx4/?igshid=7am4enve2ntn and https://www.instagram.com/p/B1A-ea6J57-/?igshid=nbc0b43k856o

1. Samia Mehraj:

https://instagram.com/samia_meh_?igshid=csfaxvfwle3b

General Articles on Kashmir to Dispel Myths

1. A brief history of the Kashmir conflict
2. Roots of the Kashmir dispute
3. Kashmir: When Ignorance Begets Tragedy and Farce
4. Kashmiri Pandits Are a Pawn in the Games of Hindutva Forces
5. Kashmir: a place of blood and memory
6. On Loving and Losing Kashmir
7. Gendered Processes
8. India’s Obsession with Kashmir
9. Andrew Whitehead Image Collection

Scholars on Kashmir to read up in Academia.edu:

1. Mona Bhan
2. Inshah Malik
3. Ather Zia
4. Mohamad Junaid
5. Dibyesh Anand
6. Haley Duschinski