Srinagar, Indo-Administrative Kashmir- Hafafa Kanjwal’s book on Kashmir has recently been banned, but the most pushing her is the irony of the moment.
This week, the officials of India-Advanced Kashmir allowed 25 books written by admirable scholars, writers and journalists.
The banned books include Kanjwal’s colonialism in Kashmir: State -India trade. But as was the ban Police raids followed by He seized books on blacklist shops in many books in Srinagar, the largest city in the region, the Indian Officer is organizing a book festival in the city on the banks of Dal Lake.
“There is nothing surprising about the ban, which comes at a moment when the censorship and observance level in Kashmir have reached ridiculous heights since 2019,” Kanjwal told Al Jazir that he has been referring to this region of India on this region. Kashmir’s semi -science status was canceled Six years ago.
“Of course, this ban has come at a time when the Indian Indians are simultaneously promoting books and literature through the state -sponsored Chinar Book Festival.”
Nevertheless, despite the long history of facing the censorship of Kashmir, New Delhi made a special effort to control the educational institution in the controversial region.
‘Mislead the youth’
The government gives a detailed overview of the 25 books banned by the partition of India, and the reasons why Kashmir was the beginning of such regional dispute.
They include writing like Azadi who is the Booker Award winner Arundhati RoyViolation of human rights in Kashmir Piotter Balsorovich and Agniska Kuzevska, Kashmiris’ Mohammad Yusf Saraf wrote freedom, Kashmir politics and Abdul Gokhami Jabbar and remember Kunan Pospar. Powered by Blogger. These are books that violate the rights of Kashmir and directly to the massacre and the promises made by the Indian state.
Then there are books of Kanjwal, a ruined state of journalist Anuradha Bhasin: After section 0 37, the Untold Story of Kashmir and the Legal scholar AG Nurani’s controversy in 1947-2012, which dissolves the political journey of the region for decades.
The government has blamed these books for the reason for the “misleading youth” in Kashmir and their “participation in violence and terrorism”. The government’s order states: “This literature will deeply affect the mindset of the youth by promoting the culture of the victims, the victims and the terrorist bravery.”
The Controversy in Kashmir 1947. On the date of 1947, when the British British, the British, dominated the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan. The Hindu king of the Muslim majority tried to be independent of the Kashmir, but after Pakistan-supportive soldiers entered the region, they agreed to join India on the condition of getting special status in the new team with some autonomy under the Indian Constitution.
But the Kashmiri people were not asked what they wanted, and India repeatedly destroyed the demands of the United Nations.
Responding to the allegation of election resolution in 1989 in, in 1989, dissatisfaction with the Indian rule increased and armed against India in 198.
Kashmir, under the leadership of Kashmir, the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, colored Kashmir on Kashmir.
In some of the criticism of Ner Nehru’s decisions, the leader of the region, Sheikh Abdullah, who advocated Kashmir’s own rules, decided to replace the controversial dismissal and his Lieutenant, whose office-bearers had a new part of the country.
This year’s Bernard Kohli’s book award won in Kannaval’s book, “The first single-writer on South Asia recognizes the excellent and innovative scholarship for the English language monograph”.
Kanjwal said that the ban gives aware of how “insecure” the government is.
‘The intensity of political clampdown’
India has a long history of censorship and information control in Kashmir. In the 5th, a major protest started after the assassination of 2 year -old students Tuffle matu Through security forces, the provincial government banned SMS services and restored them only after three years.
In 2016, at the height of the second civilian uprising, the government stopped pressure from the government by saying that the independent publication in Srinagar was “tendency to violence”.
In addition to banning newspapers and communication methods, Indian authorities have regularly arrested journalists under the law of strict preventive arrest in Kashmir.
This sample has been picked up since 2019.
“He first came to journalists and realized that they were successful in calming them, they have turned their attention to the educational,” the veteran editor said. Anuradha BhasinThose who banned the cancellation of the special status of Kashmir in 2019 are among those banned.
In her book, it is strange to make violence that Bhasin described these allegations. “My book does not glorify terrorism anywhere, but it does not criticize the state. The authorities in Kashmir want to obscure the The Officers. This is a very dangerous trend.”
Bhasin told Al Jaizira that such a ban would have far -reaching effects on the creation of future works on Kashmir. She said, “Before printing some serious printing on Kashmir, the publishers will think twice.” “When my book went to print, the legal team inspected it three times.”
‘The feeling of despair
The book is banned that students and researchers from various quarters in Kashmir have tried to impose collective memory.
Sabir Rashid, a 27 -year -old scholar of Kashmir, said he was very disappointed. He said, “If we remove these books from the literary canon of Kashmir, we have nothing left.”
Rashid is working on a book on the modern history of Kashmir in the surrounding period of India.
“If these tasks are no longer available to me, my research will be naturally united.”
On Thursday, the videos asked their owners if they were entering a bookstore in Srinagar with the videos and had some books on the list banned by their owners.
At least one book vendor in Srinagar told Al Jazir that he had the only copy of the ruined state of Bhasin, which he sold before the print. He said, “Besides I had no books.”
More admirable tasks on blacklist
Historian Sumantra Bose is surprised by the suggestion by Indian authorities that his book at Crossrods has increased violence in the region. From 199 199 Since, he has worked on the Kashmir dispute and said he has focused on creating a way to find the last peace for the region. Bose is also surprised about the family heir represented by the ban.
British India’s colonial officials banned 1920-193434 in 1920-193434, a combination of political analysis written by Subhash Chandra Bose, his great uncle and the leader of India’s independence struggle.
He said, “After ninety years, I have received the single honor of following in the footsteps of the fiction fighter,” he said.
Police raided the bookshop in Srinagar and the literary community in Kashmir has a feeling of despair when the police seized more serious work.
Rashid said, “This is an attack on people’s memory.” They had reminded our history. But now the memory of Kashmir is almost complete. “
