01280nam a2200229 4500 260609b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780674252745 Gifted Sasikumar English 954 MAN/LO 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. South Asia—History Colonialism and historical interpretation Historical geography—South Asia LEN ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN GEN 2026-06-09 Gifted 599.00 1 954 MAN/LO E1103002 2026-07-07 2026-06-23 11:54:08 2026-06-23 2026-06-09 LEN 198690 198690