The Making of Early Kashmir
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948292-4 (ISBN)
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.
Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana's Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir's sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.
Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.
Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural historian of early South Asia, specializing in working with Sanskrit texts. She is associate professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Edition, Translation, and Diacritics
1. Introduction
2. Poetics and the Past: Questions of History in Kalhana's Rajatarangini
The History Hypothesis or The History That Wasn't
The Literary Hypothesis
Is the Rajatarangini a Kavya?
Metapoetry and Epistemic Insight
'The River of Kings' as a Flow of Exemplars
Critique of Power---and Time
3. Imagined Landscape: Myth, Memory, and Place-Making
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in Kashmir
Layers of Landscape
Mapping the Land
Nature and Ritual
Storytelling and the Moral Agency of Nagas
Local Imageries
Kingdom of Piety or This Troubled Land
4. (Re)locating Early Kashmir: Geoculture of a Region and Beyond
From Unique History to Connected Histories
Text
Material Culture
Script
Language
Art
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 maps and 9 images |
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 136 x 204 mm |
| Gewicht | 324 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-948292-6 / 0199482926 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-948292-4 / 9780199482924 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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