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Mushirul Hasan
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“On reaching Pakistan [these India trained scholars had to] rewrite their own histories”. [They constructed] “a different past altogether, one that was at variance with their earlier explorations [and began] to search for heroes and martyrs, involve new symbols and traditions, and discover milestones [. . .] for the historical antecedents of Pakistan”.”
Mushirul Hasan (1949–2018) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mushirul Hasan. “The Historic Divide” The Indian Express, Saturday, February 20, 1999.
“The issue was not just the defense of Partition, or Independence from Pakistan's vantage point, but a different reading of the past involving, among other things, the rejection of a diverse but vibrant composite-cultural and intellectual legacy.”
Mushirul Hasan (1949–2018) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mushirul Hasan. “The Historic Divide” The Indian Express, Saturday, February 20, 1999.
“In order to legitimize Pakistan as a Muslim homeland, historians had to nurture the “image of the Muslims as a monolithic entity, acting in unison and committed to specifically Islamic values and norms”.”
Mushirul Hasan (1949–2018) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mushirul Hasan. “The Historic Divide” The Indian Express, Saturday, February 20, 1999.