How Hindustan became India
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The Struggle for a Historian in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
The word hindustan in the earlier part of the twentieth century remains a potent kind of symbol for call for emancipation. The idea of hindoston is the same, as i mentioned earlier, and like j hind now means basically, the nation state of india does not include bacestan or nipal or anything else. It's india alone. Soe thethe the historians are really struggling. But again, we're 200 years after this initial move in the 17 seventies,. ah, by 19 seventies or 19 eighties, i mean - so the idea is very much that the that colonial rule in india has to be understood both in its depth but also in its
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