{"id":6501,"date":"2025-03-24T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:37:44","slug":"crafting-kashmir-painting-stitching-place-in-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/crafting-kashmir-painting-stitching-place-in-the-nineteenth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Kashmir: Painting &#038; Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Work in Progress Lecture Series<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Crafting Kashmir: Painting &amp; Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Fatima Quraishi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6502 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Crafting Kashmir: Painting &amp; Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century\" width=\"387\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FQuraishiWIP2025.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/>The verdant Kashmir Valley, a place of unearthly beauty, has long been a subject of praise and description. The history and geography of Kashmir appeared in multiple literary genres, including Sanskrit sources which claimed the valley to be a sacred landscape and Persian courtly literature which characterised Kashmir as being <i>jannat nazir<\/i> (paradise like). Recent scholarship has highlighted the connections between Mughal literary imaginings, political discourse, and the construction of gardens in Kashmir, interpreting these landscaped spaces as a means to claim sovereignty over the land. In the nineteenth century, the region was again the subject of an imperial discourse, that of the British empire, a discourse shaped by a particular interest in the production of Kashmiri shawls, a highly sought after commodity in Victorian England. Among the shawls were a small set of embroidered \u2018map\u2019 shawls which depicted the city of Srinagar and its significant landmarks, both natural and manmade, one of which was sent as a gift to Queen Victoria. Large-scale painted cotton maps of the entire valley were also produced in the mid-nineteenth century, often employing the same visual conventions as the shawls. This paper explores the image-making practices which underlay the production of these textiles, departing from existing scholarship which has emphasized their imbrication within the colonial enterprise. I instead approach their resistance of the colonial gaze and highlight how the craftsmen creating them were informed by a distinctly South Asian, perhaps even Kashmiri, sense of place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 5:30PM in ARTS 333<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work in Progress Lecture Series Crafting Kashmir: Painting &amp; Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century Fatima Quraishi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/crafting-kashmir-painting-stitching-place-in-the-nineteenth-century\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,103,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lecture-series","category-news-and-events","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}