Iffat Rashid

Research Topic

Imagining Kashmir: Islam and a Nation within or without 

Supervisor: Dr Faisal Devji

Publications:

Rashid, Iffat. "Theatrics of a 'Violent State' or 'State of Violence': Mapping Histories and Memories of Partition in Jammu and Kashmir." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol.43, Issue. 2 (2020), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1712774 

Paper Presentations:

I. Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and the Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford, November 2, 2021: "Understanding Kashmir and the Nullification of Article 370: Law, History, and Politics." Title of the Paper, 'He who has steel has everything: Iqbal, Ahmadis, and the Kashmiri rights movement.'

II. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies South Asia Conference, April 15-17, 2021: "Writing the Region: Knowledge, Practice and Power in South Asia." Title of the Paper, 'Liminal Spaces, Populist Metaphors: 'Regional' or 'Transnational' Political Imagination in Kashmir and Punjab? c.1930s.'

III. Royal Holloway, University of London, May 21-22, 2019: "India and Pakistan: The Formative Phase, c.1947-1960." Title of the Paper, 'Towards Making or Unmaking a Nation: India, Pakistan, and 'Kashmiri Refugees' in a No Man's Land, c.1947-1955.'