TY - BOOK AU - Zutshi,Chitralekha TI - Kashmir's contested pasts: narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination SN - 9780199450671 U1 - 954.6 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Historiography KW - Politics and government KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Jammu and Kashmir (India) KW - India KW - Jammu and Kashmir KW - Kasjmir N1 - 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 ER -