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Film, Video Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past

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Title

  • Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-07-10.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Religion
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Literature

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Chitralekha Zutshi.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-07-10.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687984

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-10, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687984/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2008) Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-10. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687984/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Translating "History": Rajatarangini and the Making of India's Past. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-10, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687984/>.