India’s Book Ban in Kashmir Is a War on Memory - 3 Quarks Daily

India’s Book Ban in Kashmir Is a War on Memory - 3 Quarks Daily

Sajad Hameed and Rehan Qayoom Mir at Jacobin: The bookshops in Lal Chowk, in Srinagar — the summer capital of India-administered Kashmir — had been, as usual, places of quiet and repose. But on August 7, police officers started raiding stores, pulling titles from shelves and questioning sellers. By then, the news had already spread online: the Jammu and Kashmir administration had banned twenty-five books. In the hours and days that followed, boo…