EAN: 9783111356020

HAMMIRA - ADITYA MALIK KARTONIERT (TB)

This book is about the legendary Rajput chieftain Hammira Chauhan  the king of the impregnable
fortress of Ranthambore in southern Rajasthan who died in 1301 CE after a monumental battle
against Alauddin Khalji  the sultan of Delhi. This singular event reverberates through time to
the point of creating a historical and cultural region that crystallizes through copious texts
composed in different genres and languages (Persian  Sanskrit  Hindi  Rajasthani  English) in
shifting religious and political contexts  medieval as well as modern. The main
poetical-historical work composed in Sanskrit  the Hammira-Mahakavya (¿great poem¿) by the
Jaina poet Nayachandra Suri (15th century)  is propelled by a dream in which the dead king
urges the poet to write about his deeds. Can history with its preoccupation for the factual 
begin in a dream? What does it mean to think about history and time via the imagination? Is
time  whether past  present or future linked to imagination? Do imagination  time  and history
arise together? What are the implications of thinking of history as something that appears in
our experience? What does it mean to write a history as a historical being in whom diverse
temporalities intertwine in the here and now?

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