Chitralekha Zutshi

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Chitralekha Zutshi (born 1972) is a historian of Kashmir and an Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, USA.

Education

Zutshi received her doctorate in history from Tufts University.

Works

Her first monograph Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir was published by Permanent Black in 2003; subsequent reprints were published by C. Hurst & Co. and Oxford University Press. The book traces the evolution of Kashmiriyat with time and drew significant praise. Yoginder Sikand, reviewing for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society commended the research and agreed with Zutshi's arguments. A review in the South Asia Research found Zutshi's to be pioneering scholarship that would be a must-read for any scholar working on Kashmir.

Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). It was reviewed over multiple journals.

In 2018, she published an edited volume on Kashmir (Cambridge University Press) to favorable reviews. Her latest publication has been Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions.

References

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  4. ^ Sikand, Yoginder (2005). "Review of Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity and the Making of Kashmir". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 15 (2): 238–240. ISSN 1356-1863. JSTOR 25188544.
  5. ^ "Islam and Regional Identity of Kashmir". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 2015-06-05.
  6. ^ Raychaudhuri, Tapan (2005-09-01). "Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir. By Mridu Rai (London: G. Hurst & Co., 2004), 450 pp. Price PB £19.95 ISBN 1–850–65701–7. Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir. By Chitralekha Zutshi (London: G. Hurst & Co., 2004), 348 pp. Price HB $35.00 ISBN 8–178–24060–2". Journal of Islamic Studies. 16 (3): 402–405. doi:10.1093/jis/eti170. ISSN 0955-2340.
  7. ^ Whitehead, Andrew (2004). "Kashmir's Conflicting Identities". History Workshop Journal. 58 (1): 335–340. doi:10.1093/hwj/58.1.335. ISSN 1477-4569.
  8. ^ Maurya, Anubhuti (2015-07-01). "Book Review: Chitralekha Zutshi, Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 52 (3): 398–400. doi:10.1177/0019464615590539. ISSN 0019-4646. S2CID 146771443.
  9. ^ Sevea, Iqbal Singh (May 2018). "Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination. By Chitralekha Zutshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. 368 pp. ISBN: 9780199450671 (cloth, also available as e-book)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 77 (2): 574–576. doi:10.1017/S0021911818000372. ISSN 0021-9118.
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  13. ^ Mahajan, Chakraverti (2020-02-01). "Book Review: Chitralekha Zutshi, ed. 2018. Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 54 (1): 83–85. doi:10.1177/0069966719885670. ISSN 0069-9667. S2CID 214135511.
  14. ^ Chakravarty, Ipsita (8 December 2017). "Decomposing Kashmir: A collection of essays offers new ways of seeing the region and the dispute". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
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  16. ^ Bukhari, Shujaat (19 January 2018). "Perspectives on Kashmir". Frontline. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2021-03-18.


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