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Seema Chishti reviews The Loss Of Hindustan: The Invention Of India, by Manan Ahmed Asif


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December 20, 2020 08:51 IST
Manan Ahmed Asif boldly tackles the question of present-day prejudices, whether Hindutva or Muslim majoritarianism in the sub-continent
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Manan Ahmed Asif boldly tackles the question of present-day prejudices, whether Hindutva or Muslim majoritarianism in the sub-continent
In the newly constituted Bihar assembly, MLA Akhtarul Iman said he would take his oath not with Hindustan, but with Bharat, as the Constitution mentions Bharat and not Hindustan. There was a minor commotion as it was clear that Iman wanted to underline that he was not a citizen of ‘Hindustan’. This understanding of Hindustan as Hindu
sthan was ironic, as the two stand in complete contrast to each other Hindustan, indicating those that lived on this side of the river Sindhu and later as “an archive, a space and a belonging for diverse people” versus Hindu ....

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Interview: Manan Asif Ahmed on the 'loss of Hindustan' and how colonialism altered our past


Robert Clive of the East India Company at the siege of Arcot.
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Manan Ahmed Asif’s new book,
“Across the subcontinent we now confront a crisis of the past, with an explicit understanding of difference as destiny…
The majoritarian Sunni or Hindutva projects ask that we, as historians, consider them inevitable and immutable. Yet, this cannot stand…
The history I have sketched here is a prompt to imagine ways forward that do not yield to the majoritarian present, that do not inherit the past as certainty, and do not romanticise that which is lost. It is essential that, as historians, artists, activists, and thinkers, we turn to the medieval period and recognise the ways in which it continues to organise how current prejudices are rearticulated… ....

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