Kashmir's contested pasts :

Zutshi, Chitralekha, 1972-

Kashmir's contested pasts : Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the historical imagination / Chitralekha Zutshi. - Oxford India paperbacks. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014. - xv, 360 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 map ; 22 cm - Oxford India paperbacks . - Oxford India paperbacks. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.



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 7. Conclusion.

9780199481347 0199481342 9780199089369 0199089361


Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Historiography.
Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.

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