onto the Himalayas, the Ganges and the plains.

Qutban Suhravardi in 1503 penned a love story "Mirigavati" which was dedicated to the ruler of Jaunpur ( present day UP), Husain Shah Sharqi. The poem written in Awadhi combines Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit epics with Sufi gloss. the story unfolds in a mythical landscape with a geography that maps

in 1817 James Mill cemented the notion of India vs Hindustan in his "the History of British India"- the first being aborginal and native and the second foreign and barbaric-one Hindu and other Muslim.

the specific notion of 5000 yrs of #indian civilization is traceable to Jone's long poem "The Enchanted Fruit; or , The Hindu Wife", fm 1784 , published in Asiatick Miscellany in 1799.

in 1786 Jones gave his third annual discourse for the Asiatick Society he had disambiguated India from Hindustan, India was Hindu and Hindustan was Muslim.

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When Jones updated this grammar in 1783 he included an extract from the memoirs of Emperor Jahangir which contains a passage describing Agra. Jones left the passage untranslated. Proverbial colonial student would read "Hindustan" in Persian and write "India" in English(process of eliding "Hindustan"

William Jones (1746-1794) arrived in Calcutta in 1783 to work as judge at Fort Williams in Bengal. his work Grammar of Persian Language , he translated "hindu" as "black" as well as "Indian". (Atlantic slave trade influenced Jones attitude towards hindus; sees them enslaved)

Delhi had it in 2020. www.evoindia.com/news/automat...