Kashmir's contested pasts : Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the historical imagination / Chitralekha Zutshi.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.