TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manan Ahmed Asif
TI  - LOSS OF HINDUSTAN: : Invention of India
SN  - 9780674252745
U1  - 954 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvard
KW  - South Asia—History
KW  - Colonialism and historical interpretation
KW  - Historical geography—South Asia
N1  - 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
ER  -