01633nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801170007608200120019310000200020524500500022526000480027530000280032336500080035152009940035965000130135365500530136670000200141920180917121030.0180917b        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780199482924  aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002c;1082220d;05/09/2018  a954 KAU  aShonaleeka Kaul  aThe Making of Early Kashmirc/Shonaleeka Kaul  aNew Delhib:Oxford University Pressc,2018.  axvii,189 Pagesc;22 cm.  b750  aWhat 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.  aHistory   aHistory of IndiabCities and towns in literature  aShonaleeka Kaul