Delusional States

"Delusional 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 t…