1st Edition
Historiography | Cosmography A Monograph in Honour of Professor Harjeet Singh Gill
By Ishwar Dayal Gaur
Copyright 2024
170 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book attempts to study Panjab historiography from the viewpoint of cosmography, the concept derived from the cosmological paradigm which Professor Harjeet Singh Gill, an eminent semiotician, developed in his oeuvre.
Since its introduction in the colonial Panjab, the discipline of historiography subdued the indigenous craft of history writing such as katha, qissa, janamsakhi, and jangnama... Read more
1. To Begin With
2. Fact | Fiction
3. Imagination | Fancy
4. Dialogue-Orality | Writing
5. Lyricality | Linearity
6. Cosmography | Historiography
7. Literature of History | History of Literature
8. Sociology & Biology
9. Historiography Arkheion
10. Historicity | Factuality
11. Cosmic | Closed
12. Summing up | Conclusion
13. Cosmographer Waris Shah
14. A Cleavage in the Cosmos
15. Chhana (a bronze bowl)
16. Phulkari (an embroidered head-cover)
17. Lalari (a dyer)
18. Dhanak (a menial)
19. Cosmography in Vernacular
20. References and Footnotes
Biography
Ishwar Dayal Gaur is Professor of History at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
