Author: Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Hindū Shāh Astarābādī FirishtahPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The History of Hindostan
Author: Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Hindū Shāh Astarābādī FirishtahPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Loss of Hindustan
Author: Manan Ahmed AsifPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067498790X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A field-changing history explains how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus. Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Asif describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing. This makes for a radical interpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, Asif uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta. His monumental work, Tarikh-i Firishta, became a major source for European philosophers and historians, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, and Gibbon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India that we inhabit today. The Loss of Hindustan reveals the intellectual pathways that dispensed with multicultural Hindustan and created a religiously partitioned world of today.
The Cambridge Modern History
Author: The Cambridge Modern History
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The Monthly review. New and improved ser
Author: The bibliographer's manual of English literature, containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, publ. in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York. Supplement
Author: New York. Mercantile Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The British Critic
Author: James Shergold BoonePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368511491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1804.
F-O
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description