001480504 000__ 04542nam\a22006495i\4500 001480504 001__ 1480504 001480504 003__ DE-B1597 001480504 005__ 20231026034750.0 001480504 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480504 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480504 008__ 210824t20162016mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480504 019__ $$a(OCoLC)984663599 001480504 020__ $$a9780674972414 001480504 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674972414$$2doi 001480504 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)479643 001480504 035__ $$a(OCoLC)959978593 001480504 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480504 0410_ $$aeng 001480504 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001480504 050_4 $$aBP173.7$$b.A854 2016 001480504 072_7 $$aHIS017000$$2bisacsh 001480504 08204 $$a954.91/8021$$223 001480504 1001_ $$aAsif, Manan Ahmed, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480504 24512 $$aA Book of Conquest :$$bThe ‹i›Chachnama‹/i› and Muslim Origins in South Asia /$$cManan Ahmed Asif. 001480504 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2016] 001480504 264_4 $$c©2016 001480504 300__ $$a1 online resource (230 p.) :$$b8 halftones, 1 map 001480504 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480504 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480504 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480504 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480504 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Illustrations -- $$tNote on Transliteration and Translation -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- $$t2. A Foundation for History -- $$t3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- $$t4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- $$t5. The Half Smile -- $$t6. A Conquest of Pasts -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tWorks Cited -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001480504 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480504 520__ $$aThe 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. 001480504 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480504 546__ $$aIn English. 001480504 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) 001480504 650_0 $$aIslam and politics$$zSouth Asia. 001480504 650_0 $$aIslam$$zSouth Asia$$xHistoriography. 001480504 650_7 $$aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.$$2bisacsh 001480504 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001480504 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016$$z9783110638585 001480504 852__ $$bebk 001480504 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674972414$$zOnline Access 001480504 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1480504$$pGLOBAL_SET 001480504 912__ $$a978-3-11-063858-5 Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016$$b2016 001480504 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001480504 980__ $$aBIB 001480504 980__ $$aEBOOK 001480504 982__ $$aEbook 001480504 983__ $$aOnline