Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination /
Chitralekha Zutshi.
- First edition.
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- xv, 360 pages : 23 cm.
Introduction. Paradise on Earth : the past and present of history-writing in Kashmir -- Garden of Solomon : landscape and sacred pasts in Kashmir's sixteenth-century Persian narratives -- A literary paradise : the Tarikh tradition in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kashmir -- Vernacular histories : narration and practice in Kashmir's nineteenth-century historiographical tradition -- The multiple lives of Rajatarangini : orientalist and nationalist knowledge production in Kashmir and colonial India -- The Kashmiri narrative public : textuality, orality, and performance -- The divided public : battles over history and territory in contemporary Kashmir -- Conclusion.
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Historiography. Politics and government Geschichtsschreibung.
Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Historiography. Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government. India--Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir. Kasjmir.