The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif

17/03/2022 1h 0min
The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif

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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed AsifPub date: 2022-03-07Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century? The guest 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. This episode 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.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and co-executive editor of the JHI, about his book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020).The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from JHIdeas, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.