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100	1		_aAsif, Manan Ahmed. _928025
245	1	4	_aLoss of Hindustan : _bthe invention of India _cManan Ahmed Asif.
260			_aCambridge: _bHarvard University Press, _c2020
300			_a321p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The end of Hindustan -- The question of Hindustan -- An archive for Hindustan -- The places in Hindustan -- The peoples in Hindustan -- A history for Hindustan.
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aNationalism _zIndia _xHistory. _928026
650		0	_aEuropeans _xAttitudes _xHistory. _928027
651		0	_aIndia _xHistoriography. _928028
651		0	_aIndia _xPublic opinion _xHistory. _928029
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