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Author Thapar, Romila.

Title Somanatha : the many voices of a history / Romila Thapar.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Verso, 2005.
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Description xxi, 265 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Note Originally published: New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-240) and index.
Contents The context -- The setting -- The Turko-Persian narratives -- Sanskrit inscriptions from Somanatha and its vicinity -- Biographies, chronicles and epics -- The perceptions of yet others -- Colonial interpretations and nationalist reactions -- Constructing memory, writing histories.
Subject Mahmud, Sultan of Ghazni, 971-1030.
India -- History -- 1000-1526 -- Sources.
India -- History -- 1000-1526 -- Historiography.
ISBN 1844670201
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