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“We must remain mad in order to be sane”
The Kashmir conflict is as much a battle of narratives as it is a fight over territory.
Chitralekha Zutshi
Chitralekha Zutshi teaches history at the College of William and Mary. She specializes in modern South Asia, with particular interest in the relationships among religious identities, nationalism, and historical thought and practice. She is the author of Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination (2014), and Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir (2004).