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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 wherein what Professor Gill has conceptualized as "the dialectic of representation and transcendence" remained ever active.
This title has been co-published with Aakar Books.
List of contents
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
About the author
Ishwar Dayal Gaur is Professor of History at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Summary
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.
