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3. Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follows:

Take the term “Hindustan”, for example. Today we understand it as “India”, the modern nation-state. When

the term was used in the thirteenth century by Minhaj-i- Siraj, a chronicler who wrote in Persian, he meant

the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands between the Ganga and Yamuna. He used the term in a political

sense for lands that were a part of the dominions of the Delhi Sultan. The areas included in this term

shifted with the extent of the Sultanate but the term never included south India. By contrast, in the early

sixteenth century Babur used Hindustan to describe the geography, the fauna and the culture of the

inhabitants of the subcontinent. As we will see later in the chapter, this was somewhat similar to the way

the fourteenth-century poet Amir Khusrau used the word “Hind”. While the idea of a geographical and

cultural entity like “India” did exist, the term.











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