Myths and Places (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives in Indian Cultural Geography
Redaktion: Kaul, Shonaleeka

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically and culturally diverse context of India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000897241
• Artikelnr.: 67838620

Autorenporträt

Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural and intellectual historian of early India. She is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and has also been the Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale University, USA; the Jan Gonda Fellow in Indology at Leiden University, The Netherlands; and the DAAD Professor of History at Heidelberg University, Germany. She has authored The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018) and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2010), and edited Retelling Time: Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia (2021), Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (2019) and Cultural History of Early South Asia (2014). Translations by her include Hitopadesha (2022) and Looking Within: Life Lessons from Lal Ded, the Kashmiri Shaiva Mystic (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Part I: Introduction 1. Reclaiming Myth, Emplacing History Part II: Hills and Mountains 2. The Mountain Numen: Myth and Everyday Life in Kangra and Chamba 3. Toponymic Tales: Myth, Memory and Place Making in Monyul Part III: Plains and Deserts 4, Ecology, Mythic Imagination, and K
a Worship in Early Mathur
5. The First Rajput Hero: Hamm
ra and the Making of Rajasthan Part IV: Rivers and Forests 6. Myths of Purity and the Miracle of Water along the Banks of the Ganga-Yamuna 7. Between Earth and Sky: The Kuinka Narrative of Origin and Self in Belgar Part V: Cities and Coasts 8. K
as Space and Notion: Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina Myths 9. The Rise and Fall of Two Cities: Valabh
and Dh
r
as Narrated in the Prabandhacint
mäi 10. The Patriarch King: Myths from a Jewish Homeland in Kodungallur 11. Myth as Palimpsest: Performance and Provenance of the Tamil
ilappadikaram Part VI: Supra-Region 12. Peregrination as Pedagogy:
di
äkar
c
rya's Digvijaya and the Idea of India. Index.