Kashmir's contested pasts narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination
This volume explores the idea of Kashmir and the idea of history, and their articulation in tandem within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition. It illuminates the multiple definitions of Kashmir as a sacred space and polity, and history as a tradition and a set of facts. It reflects on t...
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New Delhi, India
Oxford University Press
2014
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Garden of Solomon: Landscape and Sacred Pasts in Kashmir's Sixteenth-Century Persian Narratives
- 2. A Literary Paradise: The Tarikh Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Kashmir
- 3. Vernacular Histories: Narration and Practice in Kashmir's Nineteenth-Century Historiographical Tradition
- 4. The Multiple Lives of Rajatarangini: Orientalist and Nationalist Knowledge Production in Kashmir and Colonial India
- 5. The Kashmiri Narrative Public: Textuality, Orality, and Performance
- 6. The Divided Public: Battles over History and Territory in Contemporary Kashmir