Manan Ahmed Asif
Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor at Columbia University, is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. He has written the books The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia and Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. He is also the founder of the blog Chapati Mystery which explores “the histories and cultures of Hindustan”, and co-founder of Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. You can read more about him and his work here.
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