Radhika Gupta is assistant professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies in Lieden University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include anthropology of religion (especially Islam), borderlands, post-colonial politics, urban anthropology, environmental humanities and critical theory.

'A path-breaking study of one of the great flashpoints of the Kashmir struggle, which for the first time breaks out of conventional narratives about treason, terrorism and the territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Radhika Gupta's brilliant ethnography gives us a wholly new and highly pluralistic vision of Kashmir set within a strikingly original global imaginary.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford

• Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Acronyms; Introduction: Freedom in Captivity; 1. Genealogies of Political Consciousness; 2. Reforming Self and Society; 3. Fighting for Justice; 4. Talking about Culture; 5. Living on the Edge; Epilogue; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

Radhika Gupta is assistant professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies in Lieden University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include anthropology of religion (especially Islam), borderlands, post-colonial politics, urban anthropology, environmental humanities and critical theory.

'A path-breaking study of one of the great flashpoints of the Kashmir struggle, which for the first time breaks out of conventional narratives about treason, terrorism and the territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Radhika Gupta's brilliant ethnography gives us a wholly new and highly pluralistic vision of Kashmir set within a strikingly original global imaginary.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford

• Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Acronyms; Introduction: Freedom in Captivity; 1. Genealogies of Political Consciousness; 2. Reforming Self and Society; 3. Fighting for Justice; 4. Talking about Culture; 5. Living on the Edge; Epilogue; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

Radhika Gupta is assistant professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies in Lieden University, The Netherlands. Her research interests include anthropology of religion (especially Islam), borderlands, post-colonial politics, urban anthropology, environmental humanities and critical theory.

'A path-breaking study of one of the great flashpoints of the Kashmir struggle, which for the first time breaks out of conventional narratives about treason, terrorism and the territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Radhika Gupta's brilliant ethnography gives us a wholly new and highly pluralistic vision of Kashmir set within a strikingly original global imaginary.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford

• Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Acronyms; Introduction: Freedom in Captivity; 1. Genealogies of Political Consciousness; 2. Reforming Self and Society; 3. Fighting for Justice; 4. Talking about Culture; 5. Living on the Edge; Epilogue; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.