2024/09/01 by Sk Sagir Ali · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Indian History and Philosophy #South Asian Studies and Conflicts
paper · doi:10.1080/13825577.2025.2485945
openalex publication_date 2024/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
The article attempts to critically interrogate Rahul Pandita’s memoir, Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, and novel, The Night of Broken Glass, to understand the ways in which the communitarian idea of Kashmiriyat punctuates and counters the idea of the postcolonial nation-state and its exclusionary bio-political machinery. Drawing upon Ulrich Beck’s idea of the “risk society,” it attempts to understand how the machinery of global capitalism vis-a-vis the contours of the modern postcolonial nation-state ultimately fail to protect its sovereignty and eventually disintegrates into other community groups. It attempts to understand how this always, already process of disintegration provides fecund grounds for the resurrection of other radical community spaces like the Kashmiriyat and its concomitant inherent contours of radical inclusivity.