Chitralekha Zutshi

Kashmir's Contested Pasts

Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Kashmir's Contested Pasts explores the idea of Kashmir and the idea of history, and their articulation in tandem within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition. It illuminates the multiple definitions of Kashmir as a sacred space and polity, and history as a tradition and a set of facts. It reflects on the historical memories and practices that have informed imaginings of Kashmir and its past, and the challenges posed to these ideas in Kashmiri political culture today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199481347
• ISBN-10: 0199481342
• Artikelnr.: 49964585

Autorenporträt

Chitralekha Zutshi is the James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. She specializes in Modern South Asia, with particular interests in Islam in the Indian Subcontinent; interactions between religious identities, regional movements and nationalism in princely and colonial India; commodity and consumer cultures in Britain and colonial India; ideas of history and historiography in pre-colonial and colonial India. Kashmir's Contested Pasts is her second book.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Paradise on Earth: The Past and Present of History
Writing in Kashmir
* 1: Garden of Solomon: Landscape and Sacred Pasts in Kashmir's
Sixteenth-Century Persian Narratives
* 2: A Literary Paradise: The Tarikh Tradition in Seventeenth and
Eighteenth-Century Kashmir
* 3: Vernacular Histories: Narration and Practice in Kashmir's
Nineteenth-Century Historiographical Tradition
* 4: The Multiple Lives of Rajatarangini: Orientalist and Nationalist
Knowledge Production in Kashmir and Colonial India
* 5: The Kashmiri Narrative Public: Textuality, Orality, and
Performance
* 6: The Divided Public: Battles over History and Territory in
Contemporary Kashmir
* Conclusion
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* About the Author
* Index