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- W817065917 abstract "Of Course, this is an absurd question.How on earth could the Taj Mahal 'be Pakistani' and claim a nationality which was only imagined 400 years after the mausoleum was constructed, and one hopes that no one in their senses would ask such a preposterous question.Yet, in a class of undergraduate students at one of Pakistan's best universities, precisely this question was animatedly debated during a session on Pakistan's history, with some students stating that the Taj was part of Pakistan's history, and others implying that it was 'Pakistani'.These students had all taken a course in Pakistan Studies prior to starting their undergraduate degree. Clearly, the highly controversial and contested nature of how history is constructed in Pakistan, given the numerous possibilities of framing a history of Pakistan, allows for multiple competing narratives, including a claim to the Taj 'being' Pakistani.Pakistani history has been a contentious topic where different sets of narratives give differing accounts of what Pakistani history is and, hence, how one imagines Pakistan.Given the eventual partition of British India and the creation of Pakistan, some historians have claimed that Pakistan was 'created' in 712 A.D. when an Arab invader came to what is now part of Pakistan. This is incorrectly called the beginning of Muslim contact with what is now referred to as South Asia, yet it supports one of the many official narratives of when Muslim 'consciousness' and identity were created in this region.Other competing narratives look to the Delhi Sultanate, or the Mughal Empire, or events in the 19th centuiy and 1857, crystallising into a separate Muslim identity which, inevitably led to Muslim 'separatism' and to the creation of Pakistan.The question, when was Pakistan 'created' is one which simply works around a Muslims are-different-from-Hindus discourse, culminating in a separate homeland.Hence, if the history of Pakistan is the history of Muslims in India, and just as Mohammad bin Qasim can become part of a certain legacy and heritage and can be caricatured as the 'first Pakistani', so too can the Taj as 'being' Pakistani. Pakistani history and a history of Pakistan's people and their land, become two conflicting narratives.As a consequence, 'Pakistani' history, ignores the history of the people who live in what was Pakistan (West and East) and what is left of it. Mohenjodaro, Harappa, and the history of the people of Pakistan is dominated by a north Indian (largely Hindustani) Muslim history, and that too only of kings and their courts.The Pakistan 'freedom movement' of course and not the movement for independence from British colonialism for all Indian peoples shapes this discourse more teleologically, once politics dominate undivided India in the 20th century. The little writing that has taken place about Pakistani history is largely hagiographie and hyperbolic, where the project Pakistan with Muslims as a driving force is required to explain processes which led to the culmination of the events leading to August 1947. …" @default.
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