During the turbulent period prior to colonial India's partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding…
"Ghalib: Selections from His Urdu Poetry and Prose is an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Indian Urdu-language poet, Mirza Asadullah Khan "Ghalib" (1797-1869). Ghalib remains one of the most popular and influential Urdu-language poets. He also wrote in …
Chiefly on Urdu poetry
Chiefly on Urdu poetry.
The Lucknow omnibus
by Oldenburg, Veena Talwar, Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie, Šarar, ʿAbd-al-Ḥalīm
The Lucknow omnibus
by Oldenburg, Veena Talwar, Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie, Šarar, ʿAbd-al-Ḥalīm
Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal's poetry and prose, despite their philosophical content and tone, are overtly political. This can be attributed to the political environment of British India in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century; any intellectual of that…
The story of Ram, Sita, and Ravan, often referred to as the Ramayan, has been a profoundly important "mytheme" in South and Southeast Asia for centuries, its varied forms and functions attracting a great deal of scholarly interest. Yet within the expansive amount of research on …
In this dissertation I look at the ways in which the printed word affected people's lives in late colonial India. I explore the vicissitudes and challenges faced by a Muslim intellectual and Urdu writer of the period hoping to make it in the world of print, 'Abdul Ha[dotbelow]li…
This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah ) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marv…