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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Urdu literature"”.
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FROM MARKAZ TO MULK: LAHORE, MAGAZINES, AND THE PLACE OF URDU IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, 1900-1950
… contributed to the development of 20th century Urdu culture. Focusing on Lahore, where Urdu was not the native language, I show how the city came to be recognized as an important space of Urdu literature and publishing. Lahore rose to the status of a markaz, or center, as part of complex …
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ASHRAF 'ALI THANAWI'S BIHISHTI ZEWAR: MUSLIM FEMALE PIETY UNDER THE DEOBANDI MOVEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA
… historical study, using literary sources, of the Urdu literature directed towards women of the ashraf class in late colonial India. The study explores the both religious and secular literature in Urdu produced during the dusk of imperialism in India. It concludes that female piety was similarly …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
… study examines the romance genre in Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, and Braj Bhasha. It locates the romance genre within a system of related and opposed genres, and considers the operation of multiple genres within texts marked as "romances," via communal memory and intertextuality. The worldviews …
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Recovering an archive of women’s voices : Durga Prasad Nadir’s "Tażkirāt ul-Nissāy-e Nādrī"
… “Tażkirāt ul-Nissāy-e Nādrī” is the second Urdu tażkirah (biographical compendium) to engage with women authors of Urdu and Persian poetry over the ages. The text was published between 1876 and 1884 in Delhi, India, and collates biographical information on women poets from India and Iran …