Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination /
Zutshi, Chitralekha,
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.
9780199450671 0199450676
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.
954.6 / ZUT/K
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.
9780199450671 0199450676
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.
954.6 / ZUT/K