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

by Zutshi, Chitralekha

• ISBN13: 9780199481347
• ISBN10: 0199481342
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-04-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Chitralekha Zutshi is James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History at The College of William and Mary.

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
Index
About the Author