Manan Ahmed Asif

A stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia. Longlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain's colonial hold and...

Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize Remarkable and pathbreaking - A radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan. - Mahmood Mamdani The brilliance of Asif's book rests in the way he makes readers think about the name 'Hindustan.' Asif's focus is Indian history, but it is, at the same...