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020			_a9780199482924
028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. _b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1082220 _d;05/09/2018
082			_a954 KAU
100			_aShonaleeka Kaul
245			_aThe Making of Early Kashmir _c/Shonaleeka Kaul
260			_aNew Delhi _b:Oxford University Press _c,2018.
300			_axvii,189 Pages _c;22 cm.
365			_b750
520			_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.
650			_aHistory
655			_aHistory of India _bCities and towns in literature
700			_aShonaleeka Kaul
942			_cBOOK
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