{"id":212367,"date":"2026-03-02T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212367"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:55:10","slug":"paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212367","title":{"rendered":"Paradise lost: Kashmir, orientalism, and the politics of belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir has long occupied a curious space in the European imagination. For centuries, travellers, merchants, and colonial administrators produced narratives that constructed this Himalayan valley as a mythical \u2018Paradise of the Indies\u2019 \u2014 a land of extraordinary beauty whose inhabitants, strangely, were deemed unworthy of it&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1962813\/paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir has long occupied a curious space in the European imagination. For centuries, travellers, merchants,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212367-paradise-lost-kashmir-orientalism-and-the-politics-of-belonging.webp",300,180,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}