Somanatha
the many voices of a history
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Word Count
66,250 words, Guess
Page Count
265 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3296403M
- ISBN-101844670201
- OCLC Control Number56404922
- OCLC Control Numbersomanathamanyvoi0000thap
- Library of Congress Control Number2004020254
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- Goodreads1229011
- LibraryThing1228493
Classifications
- DDC954.02/23
- LCCDS458.3 .T47 2005
- LCCDS458.3 .T47 2004
Description
History and sources of Somanatha Temple; a study.
Description
"In 1029, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid finds little mention except in the Turko-Persian sources but becomes a major event of Indian history during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in India, but in the House of Commons. The triumphalist accounts of the event in Turco-Persian sources became the main source for most 19th-century historians. It suited some and also helped the British to divide and rule a multi-millioned subcontinent." "In her new book, Romila Thapar reconstructs what took place by studying other sources, including local Sanskrit inscriptions, biographies of kings and merchants of the period, court epics and popular narratives that have survived. The result undermines the traditional version of what took place. These findings also contest the current Hindu religious nationalism that constantly utilises the conventional version of this history."--Jacket.
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