TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaul, Shonaleeka
TI  - Making of early Kashmir: : landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini
SN  - 9780199482924
U1  - 915.46  
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Delhi	
PB  - Oxford University Press	
KW  - Kashmiri History
KW  - Kashmir-India
N1  - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-making-of-early-kashmir-9780199482924?cc=in&lang=en&#
N2  - 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
ER  -