Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination / Chitralekha Zutshi.

By: Zutshi, ChitralekhaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 360 pages : 23 cmISBN: 9780199450671; 0199450676Subject(s): Historiography | Politics and government | Geschichtsschreibung | Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Historiography | Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Politics and government | India -- Jammu and Kashmir | Jammu and Kashmir | KasjmirDDC classification: 954.6
Contents:
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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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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