01209nam a2200193   4500008004100000020001800041037002200059041001200081082001600093100002100109245004400130250000600174260002600180300000800206500069200214650002500906650004600931650003800977260609b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780674252745  cGiftednSasikumar  aEnglish  a954bMAN/LO  aManan Ahmed Asif  aLOSS OF HINDUSTANb: Invention of India  a1  aLondonbHarvardc2020  g321  aThis 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.  aSouth Asia—History  aColonialism and historical interpretation  aHistorical geography—South Asia