How Hindustan became India
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The Importance of the Concept of Hindustan
I think, why it's important to say something about hindustan rather than just india. I riht, what difference does it make if the word is in english, or or anything else? And, you know, we're, i think one of the things that is important for us to understand is, for example, the the continent we call america did not have that name before european settlement called it as such. Its prior names and its prior indigenous histories are lost. In a d colonial move weare kind of re invigorating concept worlds that existed prior to colonialism. Think that's an very important part of how we see the pastth,. The fact
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