Events

A talk by Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)

On her new book,

Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation

Discussant:  Mohamad Junaid (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location:  Dept. of History, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, Upper Campus

Co-sponsored by the Qalam Pakistan Initiative at the Department of History, the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies, and South Asia Institute

Hafsa Kanjwal is Assistant Professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. As a historian of modern Kashmir, she is the author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press, 2023), which examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition. Prof. Kanjwal has written and spoken on her research for a variety of news outlets including the Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and the BBC.

Mohamad Junaid is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. His current book project, titled “Rebel Dreams: Postcolonial Empire and Political Subjectivity in Kashmir,” is an ethnographic account of the post-1947 movement for self-determination in Indian-controlled Kashmir. His work on military occupation, space, and memory has appeared in scholarly and public venues across US, Middle East and South Asia.