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THE LOSS OF HINDUSTAN T H E LO S S O F H I N D U S TA N THE INVENTION OF I N D I A MANAN AHMED ASIF Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2020 Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Cover design: Graciela Galup Cover art: Getty Images 9780674249844 (EPUB) 9780674249851 (MOBI) 9780674249868 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Title: The loss of Hindustan : the invention of India / Manan Ahmed Asif. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020008165 | ISBN 9780674987906 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Nationalism— India— History. | Europeans— Attitudes— History. | India— Historiography. | India—P ublic opinion— History. Classification: LCC DS435 .L67 2020 | DDC 954— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn. loc. gov/ 2020008165 To my teachers who gave me the gift of Hindustan: C. M. Naim, Muzaffar Alam, and Shahid Amin CONTENTS Note on Transliteration and Translation ix 1 Introduction: The End of Hindustan 1 2 The Question of Hindustan 28 3 An Archive for Hindustan 63 4 The Places in Hindustan 102 5 The Peoples in Hindustan 143 6 A History for Hindustan 181 7 Afterword 220 Notes 227 Bibliography 265 Acknowl edgments 299 Index 303 NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION I have retained the diacritical indication for the presence only of the let- ters hamẓa (ʾ) and ʿayn (ʿ). I have omitted the Arabic definite article as well as used - i for the Persian iẓāfa. When citing from sources, I have left the text unaltered. All translations, u nless noted, are mine. All dates are rendered in Common Era (CE).
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