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Inventing South Asia
Manan Ahmed Asif
“We're not post-colonial. We're post-colonized...Even if purportedly colonialism ended, it didn't end for the languages we speak, for the passports we hold, for the laws that govern our lives. To claim post-coloniality is a mirage.”
We're not post-colonial. We're post-colonized...Even if purportedly colonialism ended, it didn't end for the languages we speak, for the passports we hold, for the laws that govern our lives. To claim post-coloniality is a mirage.
RECOMMENDED: The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif (Harvard University Press, 2020).
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Interview
Karachi
The Loss of Hindustan
Intellectual History
South Asia as a Term
Experimental Methods
Language
Postcolonialism
Karachi University
Chachnama
KK Aziz
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Nationalism
Postcolonialism as Myth
South Asian Studies
Columbia University
Partition
Manan Ahmed is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He is the author of four books, including The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India, and Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore.
Interview
Karachi
2nd
Sep
2020
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