Somanatha, the many voices of a history (Record no. 62582)
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| fixed length control field | 01645cam a2200181 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0670049824 (jacket) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.0223 |
| Item number | ROM/S |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Romila Thapar |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Somanatha, the many voices of a history |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Penguin, Viking |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 260 p., [8] p. of plates |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | History and sources of Somanatha Temple; a study. In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely 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 Turko-Persian chronicles became the main source for most eighteenth-century historians. It suited everyone and helped the British to divide and rule a multi-millioned subcontinent.<br/>In her new book, Romila Thapar, the doyenne of Indian historians, 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 is astounding and 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Historiography |
| -- | India |
| -- | Mahmud, Sultan of Ghazni, 971-1030 |
| -- | History--Sources |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Somanatha Temple (Somnāth, India) |
| -- | Antiquities |
| -- | India--Somnāth |
| -- | Pillage |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 13628120 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2004325504 |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 20/09/2021 | 375.00 | 954.0223 ROM/S | 52563 | BK |