Rupture - Stories on the Sorrows of Kashmir

The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslims living together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togetherness is rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the reader to the terrible conditions of Hindu refugees as they began to live in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.

List of contents

• Foreword


• Acknowledgement


• Snow


• The Hunter


• Separation


• Earth


• Fire


• Air


• Water


• Measureless


• Dry Stream of the Camp


• Panjtantra


• Intervention


• Gauri's Div Gaam


• Afterword

About the author

Dr. Javaid Iqbal Bhat is an academic, writer and a cultural critic. He teaches at the Post Graduate Department of English, South Campus, University of Kashmir. Bhat has done his PhD from Ohio University, USA. He is the author of books Mourning Memories: From Amarnath Row to the Year of Dead Eyes (2017), Scars of Summer (2017), Covering a Decade (2007-2017): Reflections on the Kashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs (2019) and Calm before the Storm (2021). He has co-edited A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins). He has published papers in, among others, journals like Third Text and Folklore. He writes columns for the newspapers Greater Kashmir, Daily Times (Lahore).

Rattan Lal Shaant was born in Srinagar in 1938. He did BA from University of Kashmir and MA and DPhil from Allahabad University. From 1959 to 1996 he taught Hindi and Kashmiri languages and literature in different colleges of Kashmir and for a short time in University of Kashmir.

Summary

The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslims living together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togetherness is rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the reader to the terrible conditions of Hindu refugees as they began to live in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.

Additional text

The cultural landscape that breathes through the vivid imagery
elevates the story. One finds a sense of nostalgia for lost
homeland woven with the longing for the nation.
- Saba Mahmood Bashir, Assistant Professor, Department of
English, Jamia Millia Islamia

Product details

• Authors: Rattan Lal Shant
• Assisted by: Javaid Iqbal Bhat (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192865083
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286508-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Pakistan, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Fiction in translation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers