BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute and the South Asia Center invite you to a book launch for \;Hafsa Kanjwal\, associate professor of history at Lafayette College.In this talk\, Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her book “Coloniz ing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation.” The book interrogate s how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade l ong rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad\, the second prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucra tic documents\, propaganda materials\, memoirs\, literary sources and oral interviews in English\, Urdu and Kashmiri\, Kanjwal examines the intentio ns\, tensions and unintended consequences of Bakshi’s state-building polic ies in the context of India’s colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kas hmir government tailored its policies to integrate Kashmir’s Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension\, corruption and political repression. Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial\, Kanjwal historicizes India’s occupation of Kashmir thro ugh processes of emotional integration\, development\, normalization and e mpowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that e merged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so\, she urges us to q uestion triumphalist narratives of India’s state-formation\, as well as th e sovereignty claims of the modern nation-state. \;Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian history in the Department of History a t Lafayette College in Easton\, Pennsylvania\, where she teaches courses o n 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 “Co lonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation” (Stanford Univer sity Press\, 2023)\, which examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmi r in the aftermath of Partition. Hafsa has written and spoken on her resea rch for a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post\, Al Jazee ra English\, and the BBC.  \; DTEND:20241009T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T125125Z DTSTART:20241009T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Book Talk: ‘Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupat ion’ UID:RFCALITEM639141726850031061 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute and the South Asia C enter invite you to a book launch for \;Hafsa Kanjwal\, associate prof essor of history at Lafayette College.

In this talk\, Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her book “Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occup ation.” The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India thr ough a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad \, the second prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Dra wing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents\, propaganda materials\, memoirs\, literary sources and oral interviews in English\, Urdu and Kashm iri\, Kanjwal examines the intentions\, tensions and unintended consequenc es of Bakshi’s state-building policies in the context of India’s colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government tailored its policies t o integrate Kashmir’s Muslims while also showing how these policies were m arked by inter-religious tension\, corruption and political repression.

Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial\, Kanjwal histo ricizes India’s occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integ ration\, development\, normalization and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decol onization. In doing so\, she urges us to question triumphalist narratives of India’s state-formation\, as well as the sovereignty claims of the mode rn nation-state. \;

Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of S outh Asian history in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Ea ston\, Pennsylvania\, where she teaches courses on the history of the mode rn world\, South Asian history\, and Islam in the Modern World. As a histo rian of modern Kashmir\, she is the author of “Colonizing Kashmir: State-b uilding Under Indian Occupation” (Stanford University Press\, 2023)\, whic h examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Par tition. 

Hafsa has written and spoken on her research for a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera Englis h\, and the BBC.  \;

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