{"id":30679,"date":"2024-02-12T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=30679"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:32:37","slug":"juristalks-colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation-featuring-dr-hafsa-kanjwal","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/event\/juristalks-colonizing-kashmir-state-building-under-indian-occupation-featuring-dr-hafsa-kanjwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Juristalks: Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation featuring Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>Please join us as Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made \u201cintegral\u201d to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri, Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended consequences of Bakshi\u2019s state-building policies in the context of India\u2019s colonial occupation. Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes India\u2019s occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question triumphalist narratives of India\u2019s state-formation, as well as the sovereignty claims of the modern nation-state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the speaker: <\/strong>Hafsa Kanjwal is an assistant professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on 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&nbsp;<em>Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation.&nbsp;<\/em>Hafsa&nbsp;has written and spoken on&nbsp;her research for a variety of news outlets including&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Al Jazeera English<\/em>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>BBC.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A light lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30680,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-30679","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-03-08 12:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-03-08 12:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"D492","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/30679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/30679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32828,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/30679\/revisions\/32828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=30679"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=30679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}