The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini - Couverture rigide

Kaul, Shonaleeka

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199482926 ISBN 13 : 9780199482924

Editeur : OUP India, 2018

Synopsis

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.

Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural historian of early South Asia, specializing in working with Sanskrit texts. She is associate
professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199482926
• ISBN 13: 9780199482924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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