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It is generally agreed that the novel is of European origin and that it was imported into non-European countries through colonial contact. While acknowledging this European precedence, it is important to also acknowledge the unique ways in which non-European authors indigenized …

Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winning Bengali poet and polymath, is an eminent figure in the history and culture of modern India. As the Indian Independence Movement grew in the early twentieth century, Tagore used his renown to establish a university in the rural community o…

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 dissertation takes up the issue of ijtihad , creative legal reform, as defined and upheld by contemporary `ulama (traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars). It centers in on a particular issue--women's right to divorce--within a particular context--early 20th centur…