Myths and Places by Shonaleeka Kaul
1) This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between myths and places in the Indian subcontinent. 2) Rich in archival sources, it contains case studies from new places like Kodungallur, Champaran, Hamirpur, Nilachal Hills in India and discusses themes like the Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina myths as well as myths from a Jewish homeland. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of history, anthropology and South Asian Studies across UK.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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367712006 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367712008 |
| Title | Myths and Places |
| Author | Shonaleeka Kaul |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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