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"Delusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For over seven decades, the territorial conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centred nationalisms. The book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories -- of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror -- that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground.…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2019Cambridge University Press · 325 pages · 9781108497442
- Other · English · 2019Cambridge University Press · 9781108609166
Pakistan, politics and governmentConflict managementNationalismIslamHistorySocial conditionsPolitics and governmentForeign relations