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The Making of Early Kashmir

Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini

By (author) Shonaleeka Kaul
Format: Hardback
Publisher: OUP India, New Delhi, India
Published: 24th May 2018
Dimensions: w 136mm h 204mm d 20mm
Weight: 324g
ISBN-10: 0199482926
ISBN-13: 9780199482924
Barcode No: 9780199482924
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Synopsis
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. 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 duree 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.

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...a short but incredibly potent work of scholarship. * Nathan McGovern, International Journal of Hindu Studies *