How Hindustan became India
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Writing a History of Black Live, Black, Black Living
By the time we get to 18 eighties, 18 nineties, and i look at a set of historians who are writing in dalia, you know, who were writing on hindustan. They will write a history of queen victoria e wit with as much kind of sense of ownership on that history as they would written a history of hindusta. So this is a struggle for various intellectuals of the late nineteenth century. Some of them basically write what we could call the same narrative that a intellectual, colonial intellectual like vincent smith is writing in the early part of the twentieth century. And so there's not much difference in terms of the perspective that is being so they are
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