TY - BOOK AU - Rashid,Afsana TI - Widows and half widows: saga of extra-judicial arrests and killings in Kashmir SN - 9788172210489 (pbk.) U1 - 306.883/RAS 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pharos Media & Pub KW - Disappeared persons' spouses KW - India KW - Jammu and Kashmir KW - Disappeared persons KW - Insurgency KW - Human rights KW - Jammu and Kashmir (India) KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]) N2 - "This book is about women who even after years of the disappearance of their husbands, sons and fathers are still on a daily search for their loved ones while trying to discover their own identity - are they widows or not widows. Apart from economic hardships, they have been alienated by family, society and government. Documenting their mental agony and trauma was never an easy task. This book compiles their tragedies in order to give a voice to the voiceless. Courts have failed them, successive governments have brushed aside their suffering, society has adopted an indifferent attitude and there are those who earn out of the indigence of these women; Kashmir human rights"--Back cover ER -