A Book of Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
176 A CONQUEST OF PASTS For if the identification of some scholars is accepted, Bhambhor is none other than the famous port of D ...
A CONQUEST OF PASTS 177 duced Muhammad bin Qasim from the fourth grade onward, progres- sively adding historical detail and text ...
178 A CONQUEST OF PASTS Lahore); and the British rule is introduced only after the r84os, when Punjab and Sind are colonized. Th ...
A CONQUEST OF PASTS 179 hideen yani Pak o Hind ki Qaum 'Arain ki Dastan (The Story of the Descendants of the Syrian Companion Mu ...
Conclusion IN 1989 A. K. RAMANUJAN asked, "Is there an Indian way of thinking?" His own answer looked at a range of thought, sta ...
CONCLUSION 181 In this book, I focused on the origins narrative that has governed, implicitly and explicitly, the composition of ...
182 CONCLUSION afterlife of a given text. The result is that there is no clear understanding of the life of the text and the pol ...
CONCLUSION and shrines of Uch. These were signs embedded by Sufis and mys- tics. The materiality of outside histories, he assert ...
CONCLUSION conquerors, and the British cannonball was mere evidence-just an- other artifact. The logic of his narrative did not ...
Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Index ...
Notes INTRODUCTION On these particular national myths, see Christopher B. Krebs, A Most Dan- gerous Book: Tacitus's Germania fr ...
188 NOTES TO PAGES 4-5 quite incapable of losing. That subtraction and that addition are the two op- erations that allow the mod ...
NOTES TO PAGES 5-12 Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 1997), p. I03. IO. V. S ...
NOTES TO PAGES 12-18 (Delhi: Primus Books, 2012). My thanks to the anonymous reviewer for alerting me to this essay. S. Bose an ...
NOTES TO PAGES 18-23 I am specifically thinking here of Georg Simmel's essay on ruin as an "ob- ject infused with our nostalgia ...
192 NOTES TO PAGES 26-28 Winand Callewaert and Rupert Snell (Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 1994), pp. 99-129. Martin W. Lewis ...
NOTES TO PAGES 28-30 193 Monica L. Smith, "The Dynamic Realm of the Indian Ocean: A Review," Asian Perspectives vol. 36, no. 2 ...
194 NOTES TO PAGES 30-3 I See Richard B. Mather, "Chinese and Indian Perceptions of Each Other be- tween the First and Seventh ...
NOTES TO PAGES 32-36 195 See Michael Flecker, "A Ninth-Century AD Arab or Indian Shipwreck in In- donesia: First Evidence for D ...
NOTES TO PAGES 3 6-43 a good reputation for future conquerors. The episode in question may be 'Ubaidallah bin Abi Bakra's attemp ...
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