The making of early Kashmir : landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini / Shonaleeka Kaul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaul, Shonaleeka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Kalhaṇa, active 12th century. Rājataraṅgiṇī.

Kalhaṇa.

Rājataraṅginī (Kalhaṇa).

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 189 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"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." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Poetics and the past : questions of history in Kalhaṇa's Rājataraṅgiṇī

Imagined landscape : myth, memory, and place-making

(Re)locating early Kashmir : geoculture of a region and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-181) and index.

ISBN:

9780199482924

0199482926

OCLC:

1024177269

Publisher Number:

99980210870