Between Democracy and Nation: Gender and Militarisation in Kashmir

This book focuses on the militarisation of a secessionist movement involving Kashmiri militants and Indian military forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The author believes that the heaviest and most grievous price of using the military for domestic repression and for the defence of Kashmir is paid by Kashmir’s citizens and society. Drawing on women’s subjective experience of militarisation, she examines the relationship between state military processes at the ‘national’ level and social transformations at the local/societal level.