Manan Ahmed Asif <br/><br/>
LOSS OF HINDUSTAN  : Invention of India 

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 - London  Harvard  2020 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674252745 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Gifted  Sasikumar 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>South Asia—History<br/>Colonialism and historical interpretation<br/>Historical geography—South Asia
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954  / MAN/LO