TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaul, Shonaleeka
TI  - Myths and places: New perspectives in Indian cultural geography
SN  - 9781032723686
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge 
N2  - This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India.Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world
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