Making of early Kashmir: landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini
Kaul, Shonaleeka
Making of early Kashmir: landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2018 - xvii, 189p., hb.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-making-of-early-kashmir-9780199482924?cc=in&lang=en&#
What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir
explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE.
Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana's Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir's sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.
9780199482924
Kashmiri History
Kashmir-India
915.46 / KAU
Making of early Kashmir: landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2018 - xvii, 189p., hb.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-making-of-early-kashmir-9780199482924?cc=in&lang=en&#
What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir
explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE.
Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana's Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir's sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.
9780199482924
Kashmiri History
Kashmir-India
915.46 / KAU