This study aimed to investigate the relationship between reading habits (in English, in L1 and overall) and English reading performance among Sindhi and Urdu students at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan, and also to explore the factors that might have influenced these…
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This dissertation examines the life and poetry of Mustafa Zaidi, whom the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz once called, “the greatest Urdu poet of the future.” It looks at his childhood, at how he made himself into a poet, at what he wrote, and at how he is remembered today. Born in 1930 in…
This thesis is a case study of Urdu and English Pakistani newspapers during the 2007 Emergency in Pakistan. Specifically, it looks at editorial discussion of former president Pervez Musharraf and his government. The 2007 Emergency marked one of the most difficult political perio…
Hemispheric asymmetry for processing printed material was examined for Urdu-English bilinguals in a series of experiments that presented material briefly to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH), left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) or to both visual fields simu…
This dissertation is a richly textured description of the lives of Muslims who reside in the Hindu pilgrimage town of Banaras, India, as encountered in and through their life histories and poetry. The first two chapters, Banaras and Urdu, focus on the physical and linguistic env…
This dissertation offers a critical exposition of shifts in conceptions of the authorship of literature through English colonialism in India, taking pre- and post-colonial Persian and Urdu literatures as a case. It distinguishes the author from the writer as a human actor who ne…
In this dissertation, I investigate the indexicality of the Urdu language in India. I examine the assumed indexical link between Urdu and Muslim identity by analyzing the ideological structures of Muslims and Hindus of Old Delhi. The analysis of the ideologies is supplemented by…
This dissertation reevaluates the literary history of modernism in Urdu poetry through a study of the controversial poet N. M. Rashed (1910-75). Best known as the first poet of free verse in Urdu, Rashed's position in the formal history of Urdu modernism is assured. Yet critics,…
In this study I challenge the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. From a post-structuralist feminist position I show that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. This di…
This dissertation examines the trajectory of the Urdu lyric (the ghazal) in its enfoldment with the"Indo-Muslim" through a series of historical and literary-critical constellations. It begins with the critique of the ghazal in the wake of the Great Rebellion of 1857 by colonial …
This dissertation investigates the nexus between language, education, and politics in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Hyderabad. Hyderabad's status as a princely state---where educational decisions were not made by the British directly---along with the vast financial…