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The making of early Kashmir : landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini / Shonaleeka Kaul.

Title
The making of early Kashmir : landscape and identity in the Rajatarangini / Shonaleeka Kaul.
Author
Kaul, Shonaleeka,
Publication
  • New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xvii, 189 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps; 21 cm
Summary
"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." -- Page 4 of cover.
Subject
  • Group identity in literature
  • Identität
  • India > Jammu and Kashmir
  • Jammu and Kashmir (India) > History
  • Kalhaṇa, active 12th century
  • Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Gymnasium
  • Landscapes in literature
  • Rājataraṅginī (Kalhaṇa)
  • Umwelt
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-181) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in electronic format.
Contents
Poetics and the past : questions of history in Kalhaṇa's Rājataraṅgiṇī -- Imagined landscape : myth, memory, and place-making -- (Re)locating early Kashmir : geoculture of a region and beyond.
ISBN
  • 0199482926
  • 9780199093304 (canceled/invalid)
  • 019909330X (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017351483
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries