Product Overview
Dubiously known as "Paradise on Earth", Siddhartha Guha Ray's account presents the long history of disturbing details of deadly political turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, the north region of the Indian sub-continent. Ray meticulously describes the ever-tightening vice of ruthless competitive domination by government and vigilante agents of India and Pakistan that have made the region a veritable war zone from 1947 till now, with no advancing solution in sight. R.S. Ratner, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of British Columbia
Product Overview
Dubiously known as "Paradise on Earth", Siddhartha Guha Ray's account presents the long history of disturbing details of deadly political turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, the north region of the Indian sub-continent. Ray meticulously describes the ever-tightening vice of ruthless competitive domination by government and vigilante agents of India and Pakistan that have made the region a veritable war zone from 1947 till now, with no advancing solution in sight. R.S. Ratner, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of British Columbia
Product Specification
- Genre
- Non- Fiction
- Author
- Siddhartha Guha Roy
- ISBN
- 978-81-953908-6-1
- Pages
- 308
- Published
- 2022
About the Author
Siddhartha Guha Ray teaches history in Vivekananda College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He is the Head of the Department as well as the Coordinator of its postgraduate section. Guha Ray specialises in human rights and labour history and completed his PhD from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His thesis focused on the history of the working class in the Calcutta Tramway Company. His notable works include Calcutta Tramwaymen: A Study of Working Class History, Human Rights, Democratic Rights and Popular Protest (2001). Furthermore, he has contributed to several journals of repute such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist, Mainstream, and Frontier. He is a well-known Human Rights Activist.
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