Introduction: Writers on Trial -- Blasphemy: Progressives, Literary Ethics, and the Case of Burning Embers -- Obscenity: Manto's Texts, Manto's Trials -- Sedition: A Poet, a Plot, and Pakistan's First Conspiracy Case -- Feminist Literary Ethics and Censorship -- Epilogue. "In t…
This is the first social and political history of Urdu. It analyzes the historiography of the language-narratives about its names, linguistic ancestry, place of birth-to the politics of identity construction among the Hindus and Muslims of India during the last two centuries. Mo…
"Anna Suvorova takes a look at the romantic masnavi, the classical genre of Urdu literature. Her focus is love-adventure poems written in northern India in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, as well as genre related narratives in Hindi, Punjabi, and Sindhi. For her stu…
Papers presented at the Workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', held at Berkeley, on 8 July 2005
Transcript of papers presented at a workshop chiefly on Hindi and Urdu poetry; covers the period, 9th to 19th century.
Papers presented at a seminar held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study by various Hindi and Urdu authors, historians, and sociologists.
Papers presented at a seminar held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study by various Hindi and Urdu authors, historians, and sociologists.
