Resisting Disappearance by Ather Zia

Author:Ather Zia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd 2020
Published: 2020-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

THE DEEPENING GRAY

There is growing evidence that in recent years tensions between politicians, the civil administration, and the military have been increasing. There are reports of confrontations with the army’s overimplementation of AFSPA and general high-handedness in their dealings with the civil administration. It must be kept in mind that there are two serving military corps commanders who act as the security advisers to the chief minister; therefore the Indian army is indispensable to administering Kashmir. The military is enmeshed in the governance of frontier communities and has made a strong foray in engaging in the main cities and towns of the Kashmir Valley.

Over the past two decades the troops have continued to increase (Navlakha 2007). The Goodwill projects are implemented to make inroads into all aspects of social, economic, and cultural life. Yet the operation has in no way changed the manner of the Indian army; rather, it remains “an attempt to make the military appear democratic and shed its colonial persona” (Bhan 2013: 134). For people like Raheem they have to “kill the snake and not break the stick.” It is through that process that the army and admin istration coerce people into regulated behaviors to thwart the desire for self-determination; however, the trace of aspirations for Kashmir’s sovereignty and resistance are retained in the palimpsest of Kashmiri subjectivity.

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