2. READING ACROSS FIRISHTA AND CHIMALPAHIN

MANAN AHMED ASIF

Forum: What Is a Postcolonized History? Seeing India through Mexico

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.

Image: by Idan Canfi (29 June 2020)