* foreword IX* Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat* An Introductory Essay* T.N. Madan 1* Part I. The sociocultural heritage: critical components* 1. The Kashmiri Pa]n]dits: Their Early History* Michael Witzel 37* 2. Mass Conversion in Medieval Kashmir:* Academic Perceptions and People's Practice* Rattan Lal Hangloo 97* 3. 3. Islam, State and Society in Medieval Kashmir:* A Revaluation of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani's* Historical Role* Mohammad Ishaq Khan 139* 4.
4. Lalla's Relation to the Shaivite and* Sufi Traditions in Kashmir* Jaishree Kak 177* 5. 5. Land Rights in Rural Kashmir: A Study in* Continuity and Change from Late-SIXteenth* to Late-Twentieth Centuries* Mushtaq A. Kaw 207* 6. 6. Shrines, Political Authority, and Religious* Identities in Late-Nineteenth and* Early-Twentieth-century Kashmir* Chitralekha Zutshi 235* 7. Maji Khir Bhavani: The Kashmiri Kuladevi* Madhu B.
Wangu 259** Part II. The sociocultural heritage:* Continuity and change* 8. The Dying Linguistic Heritage of the Kashmiris: Kashmiri Literary Culture and Language* Braj B. Kachru 303* 9. Kashmiri Music in the Context of the Music* of Muslim Near East and Central Asia* and the Music of India* Jozef Pacholczyk 339* 10. Dissolution and Dispersal: The Impact of* Modernity and Conflict on the Pandas of* Kashmir Valley* Rekha Wazir 365* 11. A Black Dog's Gaze: Some Insights* into the Mortuary Rites and Conceptual* Transformations among the Gujar and* Bakkarwal of the Kashmir Valley* Michael J. Casimir and Aparna Rao 401* 12.
Popular Kashmiri Sufism and the Challenge* of Scripturalist Islam (1900-1989)* Yoginder Sikand 489* Part III. Recent developments: Culture and politics* 13. Kashmir as Paradise on Earth* Ronald Inden 523* 14. 14. Revisiting Key Episodes in* Modern Kashmiri History* Nathal·ene Reynolds 563* 15. 15. The Rhetorics of the Kashmiri Militant* Movement: Azadi or Jihad* Navnita Chadha Behera 605* 16. 16.
Kashmiri Women and the Conflict:* From Icon to Agency* Rita Manchanda 653* 17. Kashmiri Exceptionalism* Alexander Evans 713* selected publications of aparna rao 743* list of contributors 747* index 749.