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1、FailingthetestApersonalmemoiroftheKashmirinsurgencyCurfewedNight:OneKashmiriJournalist’sFrontlineAccountofLife,LoveandWarinHisHomeland.ByBasharatPeer.Scribner;223pages;$25.PublishedinBritainbyHarperPressas“CurfewedNight:AFrontlineMemoirofLife,LoveandWarinKashmir”;£16.99.BuyfromAmazon.
2、com,Amazon.co.ukTWENTYyearsagoaBritishpoliticiansuggestedthereshouldbea“crickettest”forimmigrants.TheirBritishness,heargued,couldbegaugedbythesidetheysupportedincricketinternationals.Bythismeasure,theMuslimmajoritylivingintheIndian-administeredKashmirvalleyhasneverbeenIndian.Inonefamo
3、uscricketmatchin1983acrowdatagameinSrinagar,thevalley’smaintown,rootedraucouslyfortheIndians’opposingteam,fromtheWestIndies.In“CurfewedNight”,BasharatPeerrecallsanincidentfromhisownchildhoodthatislesswellknownbutthatIndiawouldfindevenmoreprovocative:amatchthreeyearslaterinwhich,onthev
4、erylastballofthegame,IndialosttoPakistan.InMrPeer’shometown,“peoplehugged,jumpedaroundandshoutedoverthedinofcelebratoryfirecrackers.”ThatwasbeforethestartofalongandbloodyinsurgencyagainstIndianrule.Thevalley’sHinduminoritysupportedIndia’scricketteam.Atthetime,saysMrPeer,thereligiousdi
5、videwasvisibleinnootherway.KashmiriIslam,heavilyinfluencedbySufism,wastolerant,welcomingandnon-doctrinaire.AlmostalltheHindus—pandits,astheyareknown—havesincefledviolenceandintimidationinthevalley.WhatMrPeerrecallsasalmostanidyllhasbecomeanightmare,fromwhichmostKashmirisseelittlehopeo
6、fwaking.Muchofthestoryisdepressinglyfamiliar:howIndianmisruleandariggedelectionprovokedprotestsandthen,from1989,insurgency.HowPakistan,whichdisputessovereigntyoverKashmirwithIndia,fuelledthewar,settinguptrainingcampsformilitantsonitssideofthe“LineofControl”,whichdividesKashmirintheabs
7、enceofanagreedinternationalborder.Howimprovisedbombs,gun-battles,rape,disappearancesandtortureturnedKashmir,whichaMughalemperorlikenedto“paradise”,intoanapproximationofhell—inMrPeer’swords“alandofbrutalised,exhaustedanduncertainpeople”.AsrelationsbetweenIndiaandPakistanimprovedafter20
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