Jammu and Kashmir

BJP’s land reforms and the shifting political landscape in Kashmir
The BJP’s approach to reshaping Jammu and Kashmir’s political legacy and governance model is based on exclusionary measures that have raised concerns about the erasure of Kashmiris from the region’s history and identity
Maknoon Wani | Apr 21, 2023

Jammu re-activates Village Defence Groups – and old fears
Suspected militant attacks in Dhangri village in Rajouri have spurred the Indian government to re-activate a 90s-era scheme to arm civilians. But residents are yet to feel secure.
Auqib Javeed | Apr 03, 2023

Kashmir remembers a trans icon
Reshma's long fight for transgender rights left a powerful legacy in India-administered Kashmir
Saqib Mugloo | Feb 23, 2023

What’s really behind Jammu and Kashmir’s new Family ID?
Kashmiris fear the scheme is another tool for surveillance and collective punishment by the Indian state.
Maknoon Wani | Jan 23, 2023

Integral yet dispensable
On the impact of targeted killings of migrant workers in Kashmir.
Sajad Hameed and Mudasir Rawloo | Sep 09, 2022

Charting new territories
A recent anthropological volume on Jammu & Kashmir makes important new contributions to scholarship on the region.
Amit Kumar | Sep 22, 2020

Kashmir and the rise of settler colonialism
The political and economic exploitation of militarily occupied J & K.
Maknoon Wani | Sep 01, 2020

Reading Kashmir
One year after the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, a selection of articles on the region.
The Editors | Aug 06, 2020

In Kashmir, Resistance is Mainstream
The Indian state’s decades-old tactic of installing and dethroning loyalists in Kashmir continues.
Samreen Mushtaq and Mudasir Amin | Apr 16, 2020

Militarisation and the media
How the Modi government imposed its will on Jammu & Kashmir.
Pamela Philipose | Aug 16, 2019
