Isbn: 9789377958541 (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New. ISBN:9789377958541.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Kashmir has long been imagined as a space where geography, nature, metaphysics, memory, and cultural co-existence intersect in unique ways. Over several millennia, Kashmir emerged as an influential centre of learning, producing some of South Asia's most enduring philosophical systems, mystical movements, historical chronicles, and composite cultural expressions. The convergence of Kashmiri Shaivism, its early and sophisticated history-writing tradition, and the lived ethos of Kashmiriyat, the Valley's mystic temper, created a civilizational tapestry remarkable in depth and diversity. Hues of Kashmir is an engagement with a multi-layered universe that traces four foundational strands—Shaivism, history-writing, Kashmiriyat, and mysticism—as interconnected components of Kashmir's intellectual and cultural heritage. While each domain can be studied independently, examining them together reveals how Kashmir's philosophical depth, historical memory, humanistic ethos, and spiritual fluidity shaped one another across centuries. The aim is not to romanticize Kashmir as a timeless utopia but to understand how real historical processes created patterns of co-existence, conflict, exchange, and creativity that remain central to the region's identity even today.…