Kashmir's Contested Pasts
Subtitle: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199450671
Subjects: Jammu and kashmir (india), politics and government; India, historiography
Description: This volume explores the idea of Kashmir and the idea of history, and their articulation in tandem within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition. It illuminates the multiple definitions of Kashmir as a sacred space and polity, and history as a tradition and a set of facts. It reflects on the historical memories and practices that have informed imaginings of Kashmir and its past, and the challenges posed to these ideas in Kashmiri political culture today.