Prof. and 2007 Graduate Co-Author Article for India's Greater Kashmir

June 29, 2009

June 29, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — An article co-authored by Mona Bhan, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at DePauw and Nishita Trisal, a 2007 graduate of the University, appears in today's edition of India's Greater Kashmir. Their submission is headlined, "Fluid Landscapes: The Politics of Conservation and Dislocation." (at left: Trisal; below right: Prof. Bhan)

The text begins, "The popular and widespread protests in 2008 in Kashmir against the transfer of 40 hectares of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board were described as a restaging of historical events that had culminated in decades of armed rebellion in the valley. For us, however, the debates around land acquisitions had a different salience. We had just started living with a doonga hanji family in the interiors of the Dal Lake, for whom the meanings of 'land acquisitions' resonated with, and yet exceeded popular understandings."

Greater Kashmir is the leading English-language newspaper printed daily in Srinagar, the summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Access the complete text by clicking here and then going to page 20 in the right hand column.

Learn more about the work of Bhan and Trisal in this article.

Nishita Trisal spent the 2007-08 academic year in Indonesia teaching English to young people as a result of receiving an international graduate study and research grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. Learn more in this previous story.

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