ABSTRACT
This chapter maintains that in the Kashmir Valley, the secular political project has been built in the wake of secularization. It argues that the protracted on-going secessionist/nationalist movement in the Valley, directed against the Indian state, has maintained a continuity with the idiom ‘secular nationalism’ of the 1940s’ Kashmiri nationalist movement against the Hindu Dogra rule. The chapter, however, also points out the contradictions within this secular nationalist politics and its engagement with religion in various forms.
