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Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia

Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu, Asian languages and Literature, University of Washington

Chair: Prof. Mohammed Asaduddin, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

This talk introduces the world of late 19th century Urdu print, in which a dynamic and interactive literary culture flourished. Readers and writers cultivated cosmopolitan affiliations in the pages of Urdu – language periodicals and newspapers such as Avadh Akhbar and Avadh Punch

Event starts on Friday, 18 January 2019 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Discussions

Dates

18 Jan 2019, 05:30 AM

Venue

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY