LOSS OF HINDUSTAN : Invention of India
Manan Ahmed Asif
LOSS OF HINDUSTAN : Invention of India - 1 - London Harvard 2020 - 321
This book argues that before European colonial rule, the peoples of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh shared a broader political and cultural identity known as "Hindustan." Through an examination of Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, and other historical sources, especially the writings of the seventeenth-century historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, Asif explores how colonial historiography transformed the idea of a pluralistic Hindustan into the modern concept of India defined primarily through religious categories. The work is a significant contribution to South Asian historiography, intellectual history, and debates about identity, nationhood, and colonial knowledge production.
9780674252745
Gifted Sasikumar
South Asia—History
Colonialism and historical interpretation
Historical geography—South Asia
954 / MAN/LO
LOSS OF HINDUSTAN : Invention of India - 1 - London Harvard 2020 - 321
This book argues that before European colonial rule, the peoples of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh shared a broader political and cultural identity known as "Hindustan." Through an examination of Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, and other historical sources, especially the writings of the seventeenth-century historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, Asif explores how colonial historiography transformed the idea of a pluralistic Hindustan into the modern concept of India defined primarily through religious categories. The work is a significant contribution to South Asian historiography, intellectual history, and debates about identity, nationhood, and colonial knowledge production.
9780674252745
Gifted Sasikumar
South Asia—History
Colonialism and historical interpretation
Historical geography—South Asia
954 / MAN/LO