Books by Nyla Ali Khan

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years.

Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy.

Exploring the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism and fundamentalism, Nyla Ali Khan discusses the representation of South Asian life in the works of four Anglophone writers: Naipaul, Rushdie, Ghosh and Desai.