TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asif,Manan Ahmed
TI  - Loss of Hindustan: the invention of India 
SN  - 9780674252745 (Hb)
AV  - DS435 .A85 2020
U1  - 954 As42L 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Public opinion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The end of Hindustan -- The question of Hindustan -- An archive for Hindustan -- The places in Hindustan -- The peoples in Hindustan -- A history for Hindustan
N2  - "The Loss of Hindustan presents a radical re-interpretation of how Europe came to see "India," and how "India" re-imagined history and in the process lost its identity of Hindustan as a home for all faiths. Asif uses Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, English, French, Portuguese, and German histories about the subcontinent to demonstrate the work of history writing in the subcontinent before European rule, and how the practice of history writing changed as a result of colonialism. Turning back to the subcontinent's medieval past, the author focuses on the monumental history of Hindustan by Firishta, "Tarikh-i Firishta" which was written ca 1608 CE in the central, Deccan, region of the subcontinent. Firishta became the key source for European philosophers (Voltaire, Kant, Hegel) and historians (Edward Gibbon, James Mill) in the eighteenth and nineteenth century"--
ER  -