Kashmir's Contested Pasts Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination

by Zutshi, Chitralekha

• ISBN13: 9780199084951
• ISBN10: 0199084955
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-01-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Chitralekha Zutshi teaches history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She specializes in modern South Asia, with particular interest in the relationships among religious identities, nationalism, and historical thought and practice. This is her second book.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
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
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index