Chitralekha Zutshi

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Chitralekha Zutshi (born 1972) [1] is a historian of Kashmir and an endowed chair Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, USA. [2]

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Education

Zutshi received her doctorate in history from Tufts University. [2]

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. [2] The book traces the evolution of Kashmiriyat with time and drew significant praise. [3] Yoginder Sikand, reviewing for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society commended the research and agreed with Zutshi's arguments. [4] 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. [3] [5] [6] [7]

Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). [2] It was reviewed over multiple journals. [8] [9] [10] [11]

In 2018, she published an edited volume on Kashmir (Cambridge University Press) to favorable reviews. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Her latest publication has been Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Zutshi, Chitralekha, 1972-". id.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Directory Page Title". William & Mary. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  3. 1 2 Karmali, Ayla (2006-11-01). "Book Review: Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir". South Asia Research. 26 (3): 306–308. doi:10.1177/026272800602600312. ISSN   0262-7280. S2CID   144395778.
  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.
  10. ↑ "Muhajir on Zutshi, 'Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination' | H-Asia | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  11. ↑ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  12. ↑ "Across Different Fields by Ankur Datta" . The Book Review. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  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.
  15. ↑ "The Story of Kashmir and Its People". Economic and Political Weekly. 53 (42): 7–8. 2015-06-05.
  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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