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A Book of Conquest is an important study that joins a growing conversation about precolonial India, moving beyond both colonial and nationalist tropes concerning the place and origins of Muslims in Indian society. Manan Ahmed Asif s radical re-reading of the Chachnama aims to correct portrayals of the Muslims of India as descendants of foreign conquerors.--Richard Eaton, University of Arizona

A Book of Conquest is an important study that joins a growing conversation about precolonial India, moving beyond both colonial and nationalist tropes concerning the place and origins of Muslims in Indian society. Manan Ahmed Asif s radical re-reading of the Chachnama aims to correct portrayals of the Muslims of India as descendants of foreign conquerors.--Richard Eaton, University of Arizona Ahmed's re-reading will no doubt provoke scholars in both Pakistan and India. It cuts against the grain of the way the Chachnama has been discussed and taught for centuries. Though its rigorously argued style may not help win the readership it deserves outside academia, the book comes at a pivotal time.--Kanishk Tharoor The Hindu Business Line (09/09/2016) A Book of Conquest is an important study that joins a growing conversation about precolonial India, moving beyond both colonial and nationalist tropes concerning the place and origins of Muslims in Indian society. Manan Ahmed Asif's radical re-reading of the Chachnama aims to correct portrayals of the Muslims of India as descendants of foreign conquerors.--Richard Eaton, University of Arizona This is an innovative, refreshing, and provocative intellectual history that makes a major intervention in debates surrounding the question of Islam's 'advent' in the South Asian subcontinent. In A Book of Conquest, Manan Ahmed Asif aims at dismantling the dominant origin myth that portrays Islam's encounter with India as a conquest.--Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University Ahmed s re-reading will no doubt provoke scholars in both Pakistan and India. It cuts against the grain of the way the Chachnama has been discussed and taught for centuries. Though its rigorously argued style may not help win the readership it deserves outside academia, the book comes at a pivotal time.--Kanishk Tharoor The Hindu Business Line (09/09/2016)

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Manan Ahmed Asif is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of A Book of Conquest (Harvard).

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