Kaul, Shonaleeka <br/><br/>
Making of early Kashmir:   landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini 

 - New Delhi	  Oxford University Press	  2018 
 - xvii, 189p.,   hb. 
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<br/><br/> What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir<br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199482924 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Kashmiri History<br/>Kashmir-India
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.46   / KAU