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Reading Across Firishta and Chimalpahin

Ahmed Asif, Manan

In this essay, I reflect on the position of a postcolonized historian traversing space and time, thinking and linking to histories of European arrivals to Mexico and India. The essay is concerned with early seventeenth-century histories by Chimalpahin and Firishta, who documented their worlds before and after the arrival of Europeans. I argue for a transregional decolonial approach to thinking about historical violence and the formation of disciplinary histories.

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History & Theory
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https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12228

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September 20, 2021