ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Saving the Kashmirian Sanskrit Heritage
The importance of Kashmirian Sanskrit Literature was realised by scholars only in the late 19th century, when the literary canon and historiography of Sanskrit Literature in the Indian subcontinent had already taken shape. Texts and whole genres that were unique to Kashmir, as political history, were not properly recognised and led to a distorted view of South Asian literature. Much has changed, especially in the last decades, but the latest exodus and dissipation of the Kashmirian Hindu community is bound to have a lasting negative effect on such studies. A major effort to rescue the still unpublished and often unknown highlights of Kashmirian Sanskrit literature from oblivion is…
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