List of Contributors Introduction Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr Part I Political and Historical Context: At Home and Abroad 1 The Making of the New Kashmir Manifesto Andrew Whitehead 2 Half-Widows and the Travesty of Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir Sohini Chatterjee 3 The RSS' "Village Republics" Rakesh Ankit 4 Cartooning Politics: Reading the Daily Mail , Dawn and Hindustan Times Nassif Muhammed Ali Part II Aesthetic responses to Indian modernity 5 The Experience of the Left Cultural Movement in India: 1942 to the Present Arjun Ghosh 6 Contested Natures and Tribal Identities: Regional Nationalism as Ethnography - Re-reading Rajam Krishnan's When the Kurinji Blooms Anita Balakrishnan 7 Material Memory and the Partition of India: A Narrative Interview with Aanchal Malhotra E. Dawson Varughese 8 Thinking Gender in 21st-century India: Reflections on Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back Sukeshi Kamra Index.