Amar Sohal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amar Sohal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amar |
| FAMILY NAME | Sohal |
| SIGNATURE | SOHAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5622-5207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kashmir Without History
Before 1947, Sheikh Abdullah, Kashmir’s leading thinker-politician and the arch-theorist of Indian federalism, produced a scalar conception of nationality which rested on a shared past. But the Partition of India required Abdullah to recalibrate his ideas for a new context. And since India and Pakistan were suddenly at war over his Kashmiri homeland, Abdullah provided an especially intense meditation on Jinnah’s new-found intellectual hegemony, w…
Introduction
Kashmiri Secularism
Recovering the political thought of the leading twentieth-century Kashmiri nationalist from a cynical empirical historiography, this article argues that Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah engaged creatively with questions of minoritisation. Casting the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as an autonomous Islamic territory allowed Abdullah to, somewhat counterintuitively, secure the Indian secular from the subject position of Muslim minority. This, however,…
Introduction
The calcification of permanent minorities during and after the colonial period continues to haunt the modern nation-state. Islamist thinkers in the twentieth century tended to accept this status, often giving up sovereignty to God and making Muslim subjects legible only in terms of their religion. By contrast, this special issue focuses on those Muslims who endeavoured to escape or refuse their minority status and in doing so claimed sovereignty …
Pure Kashmir
Bringing political thought to bear upon one of the world's most pressing geopolitical problems, this article explores Kashmiri engagements with nature and how these served the attempt to concurrently champion two nations: ethno-linguistic and almost homogeneous Kashmir, and heterogeneous but organic India. Disconnected from human endeavor and, therefore, astonishingly unreliant on other ideas to define Kashmir's distinctiveness, the idea of natur…
Ideas of Parity
Historians have suggested that the politics of late colonial India centred on a battle between two discrete ideas: Indian and Muslim nationalism. Complicating this binary, this paper focuses on three conceptions of parity between religious groups, contending that this logic transcended Mohammad Ali Jinnah's and the Muslim League's call for constitutional equality between Hindus and Muslims to shape a wider debate about how to defy communal majori…
Kashmiri Secularism
Recovering the political thought of the leading twentieth-century Kashmiri nationalist from a cynical empirical historiography, this article argues that Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah engaged creatively with questions of minoritisation. Casting the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as an autonomous Islamic territory allowed Abdullah to, somewhat counterintuitively, secure the Indian secular from the subject position of Muslim minority. This, however,…
Pure Kashmir
Bringing political thought to bear upon one of the world's most pressing geopolitical problems, this article explores Kashmiri engagements with nature and how these served the attempt to concurrently champion two nations: ethno-linguistic and almost homogeneous Kashmir, and heterogeneous but organic India. Disconnected from human endeavor and, therefore, astonishingly unreliant on other ideas to define Kashmir's distinctiveness, the idea of natur…
Introduction
The calcification of permanent minorities during and after the colonial period continues to haunt the modern nation-state. Islamist thinkers in the twentieth century tended to accept this status, often giving up sovereignty to God and making Muslim subjects legible only in terms of their religion. By contrast, this special issue focuses on those Muslims who endeavoured to escape or refuse their minority status and in doing so claimed sovereignty …
Ideas of Parity
Historians have suggested that the politics of late colonial India centred on a battle between two discrete ideas: Indian and Muslim nationalism. Complicating this binary, this paper focuses on three conceptions of parity between religious groups, contending that this logic transcended Mohammad Ali Jinnah's and the Muslim League's call for constitutional equality between Hindus and Muslims to shape a wider debate about how to defy communal majori…
Kashmiri Secularism
Recovering the political thought of the leading twentieth-century Kashmiri nationalist from a cynical empirical historiography, this article argues that Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah engaged creatively with questions of minoritisation. Casting the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as an autonomous Islamic territory allowed Abdullah to, somewhat counterintuitively, secure the Indian secular from the subject position of Muslim minority. This, however,…
Introduction
The calcification of permanent minorities during and after the colonial period continues to haunt the modern nation-state. Islamist thinkers in the twentieth century tended to accept this status, often giving up sovereignty to God and making Muslim subjects legible only in terms of their religion. By contrast, this special issue focuses on those Muslims who endeavoured to escape or refuse their minority status and in doing so claimed sovereignty …
Pure Kashmir
Bringing political thought to bear upon one of the world's most pressing geopolitical problems, this article explores Kashmiri engagements with nature and how these served the attempt to concurrently champion two nations: ethno-linguistic and almost homogeneous Kashmir, and heterogeneous but organic India. Disconnected from human endeavor and, therefore, astonishingly unreliant on other ideas to define Kashmir's distinctiveness, the idea of natur…
Kashmir Without History
Before 1947, Sheikh Abdullah, Kashmir’s leading thinker-politician and the arch-theorist of Indian federalism, produced a scalar conception of nationality which rested on a shared past. But the Partition of India required Abdullah to recalibrate his ideas for a new context. And since India and Pakistan were suddenly at war over his Kashmiri homeland, Abdullah provided an especially intense meditation on Jinnah’s new-found intellectual hegemony, w…
Introduction
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works)