ABSTRACT
This chapter includes a few images and pages from the 2017 photobook with a simplified storyline that situates Deen Khan’s prominent position in the cultural and political landscape alongside the losses he and his family suffered in the partitioning of the sub-continent and the challenges of living as a Muslim in Ladakh today. The Partition of India and Pakistan, and related geopolitical events, affected all Ladakh’s houses, but Deen privileges their effects on Sunni urban trading and family networks in which his old house was embedded. The chapter also draws attention to Deen’s ‘sketch of a better version’ of Khan Manzil, which challenges dominant Ladakhi stereotypes about Muslim and Buddhist houses. According to Deen, the ‘capture’ and redistributions of land began with the devolution of some aspects of government to the Leh Hill Council in 1995.
