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Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination / Chitralekha Zutshi. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zutshi, Chitralekha, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Historiography.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India).
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This volume 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908495-5
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