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050	0	0	_aBP173.7 _b.A4835 2016
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100	1		_aAsif, Manan Ahmed, _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA book of conquest : _bthe Chachnama and Muslim origins in South Asia / _cManan Ahmed Asif.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2016.
300			_axi, 250 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aHow did Islam come to India? Why is this question of such great significance to formations of political thought in South Asia? This book examines the longue dureé history--from the early thirteenth century to the twenty-first--of a particular text, Chachnama, written in Uch Sharif. The Book of Chach (Chachnama) was written in 1226 CE and provided an account, in Persian, of the 712 CE conquest of Sind by the armies of Muhammad bin Qasim. This early regional history became the foundation for British colonial efforts to cast Muslim rule in India as one of despotic foreigners--a rule to be replaced by the benevolent British one. Asif explores an interconnected Indian Ocean geography which linked sailors, merchants, and literati across divisions of religion and polities. In Chachnama, we find one of the earliest articulation of a political theory that was demonstrably polyglossic, multivalent, and deeply embedded in both the Indic and the Islamic ethos. This examination of Chachnama informs a reconstruction of a intermingled political world at the heart of the text--a world that is subsequently recast by colonial historiography in terms of stark difference alone: Muslim invaders versus Hindu subjects. This work is a bold rearticulation of a medieval imagination that reconciled power and politics in ways that appear incongruous to our present day politics. It takes aim at the fundamental way in which the modern state of Pakistan imagines itself--as a polity ideologically founded in "712 A.D." by the "First Citizen" Muhammad bin Qasim, and has implications for our contemporary understanding of religious difference and theologically based nationalisms.-- _cProvided by publsiher
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFrontier with the house of gold -- A foundation for history -- Dear son, what is the matter with you? -- A demon with ruby eyes -- The half smile -- A conquest of pasts.
600	1	0	_aKūfī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥāmid, _dactive 13th century. _tChachnāmah.
650		0	_aIslam and politics _zSouth Asia.
650		0	_aIslam _zSouth Asia _xHistoriography.
651		0	_aSouth Asia _xPolitics and government.
630	0	7	_aChachnāmah (Kūfī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥāmid) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01370709
650		7	_aIslam and politics. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00979879
650		7	_aIslam _xHistoriography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00979803
650		7	_aPolitics and government. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919741
651		7	_aSouth Asia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01244520
600	1	7	_aKūfī, ʻAlī Ibn Ḥāmid _d115X-12XX _tČaçnāmā _2gnd
650		7	_aGeschichtsschreibung _2gnd
650		7	_aAraber _2gnd
650		7	_aEroberung _2gnd
651		7	_aSüdasien _2gnd
651		7	_aProvinz Sind _2gnd
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