[Reader-list] Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past

[Sanjay Kak]

Forgive me for asking, dear reader-list....
But having read this Announcement several times over, and attempted to
unpack it with my admittedly dim wits, I'm still not able to
understand how this text proves that 'kashmir was a part of india', or
disproves the assertion that 'kashmir was never a part of India'.
best
Sanjay Kak

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Aalok Aima <aalok.aima at yahoo.com> wrote:
> when some dimwits are insistent that 'kashmir was never a part of india', one can only be amused by their ignorance and wonder at how little they know about the 'kashmir' that they are so passionate about
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> .......... aalok aima
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> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4351
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> TITLE: Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past
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> SPEAKER: Chitralekha Zutshi
> EVENT DATE: 07/10/2008
> RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes
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> DESCRIPTION:
> Nineteenth-century European orientalists and philologists considered the Rajatarangini--a 12-century Sanskrit historical narrative from Kashmir--as the only Indian text to which the status of "history" could be accorded. Chitralekha Zutshi analyzes several late-19th and early 20th-century translations of this text by both Europeans and Indians to illustrate the mediated nature of the process of colonial and nationalist production of knowledge about India's past--indeed of the idea of history itsef--in British India.
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> Speaker Biography: Kluge Fellow Chitralekha Zutshi is associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of "Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity and the Making of Kashmir."
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