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History Professor Manan Ahmed s new book is The Loss of Hindustan. Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century? In his new book, The Loss of Hindustan, History Professor Manan Ahmed argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India share a common political ancestry: They are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Ahmed describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea disappeared. Ahmed proposes 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, he uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Ahmed closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early-17 ....