Talking Kashmir with Uma Chakravarti: A Feminist Perspective

Uma Chakravarti, professor at the University of Delhi, examines the feminist perspective of the Kashmir dispute.

A young girl was really keen on becoming a lawyer and the cirucmstances were really grim. She was struggling against patriarchy within Kashmiri society. There was also this larger struggle around democratic rights which she was involved with. But the power of her formulation is something that is captured very well by this one statement that she gives, "If you don't struggle at all fronts, against all the different oppressions, then actually you don't succeed in struggling against the larger oppressions that people experience - Jab aap chhote zulm ko kaatoge toh bade zulm apne aap kat jaate hain" And she was really making a statement about the fact that you had to simultaneously struggle against the patriarchy within Kashmir and the kind of situation that a lot of young women faced as women in an area which is under conflict.

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