Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is an Assistant Professor of History at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Being a ‘state-subject’ of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir, his love and labour find it difficult to go beyond those ‘boundaries’.

Charting new territories

A recent anthropological volume on Jammu & Kashmir makes important new contributions to scholarship on the region.

Sep 22, 2020

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