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100			_aManan Ahmed Asif
245			_aLOSS OF HINDUSTAN _b: Invention of India
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260			_aLondon _bHarvard _c2020
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500			_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.
650			_aSouth Asia—History
650			_aColonialism and historical interpretation
650			_aHistorical geography—South Asia
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