Kashmir's Contested Pasts
Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 2014
378 pages
978-0-19-908936-9 (ISBN)
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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir's Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each other to imagine Kashmir as far more than simply an unsettled territory or a tourist paradise. By offering a historically grounded reflection on the memories, narrative practices, and institutional contexts that have informed, and continue to inform, imaginings of Kashmir and its past, the book suggests new ways of understanding the debates over history, territory, identity, and sovereignty that shape contemporary South Asia.
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Chitralekha Zutshi
Kashmir's Contested Pasts
Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
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