ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |7 pages

To Begin With

chapter |4 pages

Fact|Fiction

chapter |12 pages

Imagination|Fancy

chapter |11 pages

Dialogue-Orality|Writing

chapter |13 pages

Lyricality|Linearity

chapter |10 pages

Cosmography|Historiography

chapter |3 pages

Sociology & Biology

chapter |14 pages

Historiography Arkheion

chapter |6 pages

Historicity|Factuality

chapter |7 pages

Cosmic|Closed

chapter |5 pages

Summing Up|Conclusion

chapter |6 pages

Cosmographer Waris Shah

chapter |1 pages

A Cleavage in the Cosmos

chapter |11 pages

Chhana (a bronze bowl)

chapter |3 pages

Lalari (a dyer)

chapter |13 pages

Dhanak (a menial)

chapter |2 pages

Cosmography in Vernacular