Making of early Kashmir: landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini

By:

Kaul, Shonaleeka

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2018Description: xvii, 189p., hbISBN:

9780199482924

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

915.46 KAU

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Gratis Resources	Plaksha University Library	History	915.46 KAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G000252

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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.

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