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Title Perpetration and the question of moral responsibility : A Reading of Selected Petite Memoirs from Kashmir

Author(s) Karel Wazir

Abstract Title: Perpetration and the Question of Moral Responsibility: A Reading of Selected Petite Memoirs from Kashmir The State of Jammu and Kashmir has been seeking peace since 1947. Multiple attempts have been made to bring settlement in the region but none has been successful so far. In the present study, I analyze selected petite memoirs from the three anthologies: Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings From Kashmir (2013) by Fahad Shah, Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir (2011) by Sanjay Kak, and Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics (2017) by Suvir Kaul undertaken in this study, from the theoretical lenses of perpetrator studies and civil resistance. The study traces the prominent perpetrators responsible for the devastated state of Jammu and Kashmir. The petite memoirs are mostly lived experiences of people from Kashmir. The petite memoirs are a challenge to the grand narratives of its perpetrators that have been constructed globally. The study aims at discovering the various strategies of violence perpetrated by the perpetrators of Jammu and Kashmir and how it has instilled resistance in the people of Kashmir. The study unravels that the people of Kashmir are in an open prison where all aspects of their lives are under military siege. Torture, curfews, gunshots, forced disappearances, and detention are the order of the day. The protracted violence and heavy militarization have turned people into writers, poets, artists, and stone-throwers. The people of Kashmir employ all possible means to get freedom from their nominal democratic ruler. The research reaches the conclusion that the lives and territory of Jammu and Kashmir are forcibly occupied by its ruler who is perpetrating to gain the territory by terrorizing its inhabitants. The people of Jammu and Kashmir strongly deny their occupiers and yearn for freedom

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Publication Date 2024-03-14

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