Courtly Elites in Medieval Kashmir According to the Rājataraṅgiṇīs written by Kalhaṇa, Jonarāja and Śrīvara (11) (11)

• Subject Area: Asian Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257731206

Based on a narratologically informed analysis and description of what the poets Kalhaṇa, Jonarāja and Śrīvara tell in their Rājataraṅgiṇīs about the lives of individual representatives of the ruling elites, as well as the way they tell it, the aim of the subproject is to collect and analyse forms and practices of participation in and execution of power by courtly elites in medieval Kashmir. The focus is on the question how the participation in and execution of power by the elites are represented and evaluated by the authors and what their related conceptions and convictions were.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1167: Macht and Herrschaft – Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Konrad Klaus, Ph.D., since 7/2020