000			01321 a2200157 4500
999			_c26136 _d26136
020			_a9781108497442
082			_a954.913205 _bALI-D
100			_aAli, Nosheen
245			_aDelusional states _b: feeling rule and development in Pakistan's Northern frontier
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2019 _aNew York
300			_axiii, 304p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aDelusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For over seven decades, the territorial conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centred nationalisms. The book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror - that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground. Placing these emotions at the centre of its analysis, the book rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a multi-layered ethnographic understanding of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan.
650			_aPolitics and government _vConflict managemen _zPakistan
942			_2ddc _cBK