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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aAsif,Manan Ahmed
245			_aBOOK OF CONQUEST : CHACHNAMA AND MUSLIM ORIGINS IN SOUTH ASIA
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260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2016/01/01
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500			_aHow did Islam come to India? Why is this question of such great significance to formations of political thought in South Asia? This book examines the longue dureé history--from the early thirteenth century to the twenty-first--of a particular text, Chachnama, written in Uch Sharif. The Book of Chach (Chachnama) was written in 1226 CE and provided an account, in Persian, of the 712 CE conquest of Sind by the armies of Muhammad bin Qasim. This early regional history became the foundation for British colonial efforts to cast Muslim rule in India as one of despotic foreigners--a rule to be replaced by the benevolent British one. Asif explores an interconnected Indian Ocean geography which linked sailors, merchants, and literati across divisions of religion and polities. In Chachnama, we find one of the earliest articulation of a political theory that was demonstrably polyglossic, multivalent, and deeply embedded in both the Indic and the Islamic ethos. This examination of Chachnama informs a reconstruction of a intermingled political world at the heart of the text--a world that is subsequently recast by colonial historiography in terms of stark difference alone: Muslim invaders versus Hindu subjects. This work is a bold rearticulation of a medieval imagination that reconciled power and politics in ways that appear incongruous to our present day politics. It takes aim at the fundamental way in which the modern state of Pakistan imagines itself--as a polity ideologically founded in "712 A.D." by the "First Citizen" Muhammad bin Qasim, and has implications for our contemporary understanding of religious difference and theologically based nationalisms.
505			_aIntroduction 1.Frontier with the House of Gold 2.A Foundation for History 3.Dear Son, What is the Matter with you 4.A Demon with Ruby Eyes 5.The Half Smile 6.A Conquest of Pasts
650			_aHistory--South Asia
650			_aChachnāmah (Kūfī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥāmid)
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aIslam--Historiography
650			_aIslam and politics
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