[INDOLOGY] New publication in the series 'Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis'

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Dear All,

we are pleased to announce the recent  publication of

Walter Slaje, Kaschmir im 16. JahrhundertVom unabhängigen Sultanat zur
mogulischen Annexion
(Śukas Rājataraṅgiṇī, A. D. 1513–1597)
Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg
Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis, vol. 27.

The present work, handed down under the name of a certain Śuka and
supple­mented by anonymous authors, constitutes the fourth so-called
*Rājataraṅgiṇī* (“River of Kings”) in the series of Kashmirian
historio­graphies begun by Kalhaṇa and continued by Jonarāja and Śrīvara.
It is a chronicle of Kashmir’s rule and events in history, spanning the
16th century. It begins after the end of Bhaṭṭa Prājya’s lost historical
work *Rājāvalipatākā* in 1513, while Fatḥ Šāh was still exercising his
second reign, and ends in 1597 with the con­struction of the Naganagarī
city fort just before Emperor Akbar’s third visit to Śrīnagara. The
16th century in Kashmir was marked by the spread of Nūrbaḫšiyya-Sufism and
the decades-long struggle for the throne between two agnates, both of whom
were in the line of the Šāhmīrīs: Fatḥ Šāh and Maḥmūd Šāh. After a Mughal
inter­regnum by Mirzā Ḥaydar Dūġlāt (1541–1551) and sub­sequent successions
to the throne at short intervals, the inde­pendent sultanate of Šāhmīrī
rule was first over thrown by the dynasty of the Čaks (1555–1586), whose
rule in turn was ended by Akbar in October 1586 annexing Kashmir to his
Mughal Empire. According to our sources, assaults by an aggressive
soldiery, epidemics, famines and earth­quake disasters were the living
conditions of a largely defence­less population at that time.
Due to the translation by Dutt (1898) and the edition by Kaul (1966), both
of whom had interfered massively and without substantiation with the
textual structure as transmitted, the chrono­logical course and temporal
scope of the work were disturbed to such an extent that they were no longer
properly recognisable.

In this new edition, which is accompanied by an annotated German
translation and indexes, the original structure and thus also the
largely – though not com­pletely – intact chrono­logy of the text have
been restored according to the manus­cript tradition as repre­sented
by the older editions Calcutta 1835 and Bombay 1896.


hardbound, 262 pages
ISBN 978-3-86977-263-9

The book can be ordered directly from the publisher
https://uvhw.de/neu-erscheinungen/product/230828_08-263-9.html


Best wishes,
Petra Kieffer-Pülz
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