How Hindustan became India
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History of the Sub-Continent
Firsta has a radically different life in in european thought, but you can't find it because he's not cited ever in the text. Is always only in the si, on the footnotes. And furthermore, the idea of universal history would become incredibly important for people like kant and his student herder. So they will write a history of queen victoria wit with as much kind of sense of ownership on that history as they wouldwrite a history of hindostan. It's not like frista is not available to them. Theyare reading forista, but the paradime in which they are writing is he paradime of complete colonial domination.
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