The State Of Sirpur Was Bound On The North By The Simla Hill States Of Balsan And Jubbal, On The East By The Tons River Which Divides It From The Dehra Dun District Of The United Provinces. On The South It Bordered The State Of Kalsia And The Ambala District Of The Punjab.

Conventional historiography in South Asia relies on official documentation treating the elite as central players in the story of human past. The role of marginalized groups in the making of South Asian history is relegated to the background. Popular Literature and Pre-Modern Societies in South Asia charts a continuous historiographical tension between the archive-centric constructions and marginalized voices of the non-elite. Vernacular literature, fables, folklore, myths, and legends drawn from the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of South Asia are brought together to reconstruct an alternative craft of history writing. Spanning large swaths of pre-modern history and exploring material from diverse regions of the subcontinent, this volume speaks of people, individuals, cultures, and traditions sidelined in modern history. The subjects of this volume retrieve the non-maintstream descriptions/memories of peoples’ past, mapping the contest between the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces persisting actively in the domains of state, society, patriarchy, religion, and culture.

This Work Will Be Of Great Interest To Scholars, Teachers And Students Of The History Of Himachal Pradesh, Of Indian Constitutional History And Indian Politics.