A Book of Conquest : : The ‹i›Chachnama‹/i› and Muslim Origins in South Asia / / Manan Ahmed Asif.
The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate’s incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing...
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Asif, Manan Ahmed, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Book of Conquest : The ‹i›Chachnama‹/i› and Muslim Origins in South Asia / Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (230 p.) : 8 halftones, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- 2. A Foundation for History -- 3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- 4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- 5. The Half Smile -- 6. A Conquest of Pasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate’s incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the subcontinent’s partition into Pakistan and India many centuries later. But in a compelling reexamination of the history of Islam in India, Manan Ahmed Asif directs attention to a thirteenth-century text that tells the story of Chach, the Brahmin ruler of Sind, and his kingdom’s later conquest by the Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim in 712 CE. The Chachnama has long been a touchstone of Indian history, yet it is seldom studied in its entirety. Asif offers a close and complete analysis of this important text, untangling its various registers and genres in order to reconstruct the political vision at its heart. Asif challenges the main tenets of the Chachnama’s interpretation: that it is a translation of an earlier Arabic text and that it presents a history of conquest. Debunking both ideas, he demonstrates that the Chachnama was originally Persian and, far from advancing a narrative of imperial aggression, is a subtle and sophisticated work of political theory, one embedded in both the Indic and Islamic ethos. This social and intellectual history of the Chachnama is an important corrective to the divisions between Muslim and Hindu that so often define Pakistani and Indian politics today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Islam and politics South Asia. Islam South Asia Historiography. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638585 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674972414 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674972414 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674972414.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- 2. A Foundation for History -- 3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- 4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- 5. The Half Smile -- 6. A Conquest of Pasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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