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AIPS Board of Trustee, Prof. Manan Ahmed Asif recently published a book entitled, 'A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia.' In this book Prof. Asif shows that the Chachnama is a sophisticated work of political theory, embedded in both the Indic and Islamic ethos. His social and intellectual history of this text offers an important corrective to the divisions between Muslim and Hindu that so often define Pakistani and Indian politics today.