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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11707031.
Published: 22 January 2025
...Daniel Jacobius Morgan Abstract Shah Waliullah of Delhi, the famous eighteenth-century Naqshbandi, is widely recognized as a major figure in the emergence of Islamic reformist discourse in South Asia, but we still have little sense of the first audiences who engaged with his ideas. This article...
View articletitled, The Formation of a Waliullahi Public in <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> India: The Trials and Tribulations of Nurullah Budhanwi
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 658–659.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ashley L. Cohen The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory Carey Daniel Festa Lynn , eds. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 xii + 378 pp. , $100.00 (cloth) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...
View articletitled, The Postcolonial Enlightenment: <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nathan Lee Marsh Tabor Abstract This article examines a posthumous literary gathering held at the grave of eighteenth-century Persian-language poet ‘Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1642–1720) in order to trace varying uses of a peculiar shrine space and its Persianate textual practices in late-Mughal Delhi...
View articletitled, Heartless Acts: Literary Competition and Multilingual Association at a Graveside Gathering in <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> Delhi
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
... also holds manuscripts of the couplets taught by his grandfather and his Hindi translation of Sa'di's Gulistan , and Bhanupratap tells us that he also authored a history of Chunar, probably in Urdu. 3 It may seem odd to begin an essay on the eighteenth century with the autobiography...
View articletitled, Between Qasbas and Cities: Language Shifts and Literary Continuities in North India in the Long <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span> <span class="search-highlight">Century</span>
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
...- and eighteenth-century northern India through the example of a Sanskrit work on music, the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”), which was repurposed in Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) and other vernacular languages. 6 Musicological texts were flexible forms of literature: they appealed to different communities...
View articletitled, Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> North India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Samyak Ghosh Abstract This article situates the court of the Tungkhungia kings of Brahmaputra Valley (1680–1830), in present day Assam, in the space of courtly convergence and response in eighteenth-century South Asia. It studies a particular moment in the Tungkhungia royal court (1714–44) when...
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View articletitled, “Two Kings” in the Tungkhungia Court?: Love and Courtly Culture in Early <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> Hindustan
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 254–270.
Published: 01 August 2003
...EUGENE F. IRSCHICK Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in
Early Eighteenth Century South India1
EUGENE F. I RSCHICK
In their commentary about the Tswana, John and early eighteenth century...
View articletitled, Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early <span class="search-highlight">Eighteenth</span> <span class="search-highlight">Century</span> South India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 310–329.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Indrani Chatterjee This essay argues that a convergence of global and postcolonial scholarship has led to a dominant mode of reading precolonial records in ways that are colonial in their perspective and political purpose. It traces this dominance between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 556–572.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Baki Tezcan This essay proposes a new framework to study the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by focusing on the transformation of Ottoman political structures in the seventeenth century. It offers a summary of Ottoman political history up to the sixteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
...” to the extent that it proliferated in the successor states of the Mughal empire over the eighteenth century. Lally’s article analyzes the transformation of the equestrian portrait, using this topos as a set of sources through which to examine changes in kingship and imperial politics from the seventeenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 August 2023
... through its peculiar practices of ownership of property, kinship, and marital norms. From the late eighteenth century onward, the system has been subjected to significant internal and external criticisms. These especially targeted inheritance-related customs where men got no share in the property...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 365–385.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Deccani Urdu was a feminine language before this reform, as argued by some literary historians of the Deccan. It then asks whether Mah Laqa Bai had a feminist agenda as a women poet of the eighteenth century, as charged by some feminist scholars of the Deccan. The essay concludes that Mah Laqa Bai's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Irfan Kokdas This study explores how the monetization and commercialization of rural economy, peasant mobility, and the changing power of landholders in the countryside affected the nature of Salonikan society throughout the eighteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which the emerging power...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 473–486.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Meirav Mishali-Ram Afghanistan has been the scene of enduring violent conflict for three decades, yet the sources of its conflict date back to the establishment of the Afghan state in the eighteenth century. The American-led military intervention in October 2001 ended the extremist Taliban rule...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 230–245.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Dahlia E. M. Gubara The study of something termed Arab/Islamic slavery has flourished in recent years. Through a close reading of a seminal text, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fi’l-tarajim wa’l-akhbar by the late eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gubara’s essay critically engages...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
... ( Medemia argun ) well documented in ancient Egyptian tombs but unrecorded “in living condition” since the late eighteenth century. Gathering written and photographic accounts in memoirs, archives, and botanical tracts, this essay charts the documentary traces of the search for Medemia argun...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
...William R. Pinch Abstract In this essay William R. Pinch probes whether and how we might understand early Hindi poetry as a form of history, a theme that Allison Busch explored in a series of essays. His focus is on two late eighteenth-century poems that Allison, Dalpat Rajpurohit, and Pinch...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that animate Robinson Crusoe do not appear in this pivotal chapter on the secret of commodity fetishism, as though their time had passed, a relic of appropriations of Sindbad the Sailor by French and English translators and London magazine editors in the early eighteenth century. A Thousand and One Nights...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 289–292.
Published: 01 August 2022
... poets who wrote and produced important critical works in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as they moved to-and-fro across Rajput and Mughal courts. As Busch pointed out in her introduction, such movements would be familiar to any intellectual historian of, say, France who could trace...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 20–26.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., an institution which was household expenses (Timberg, 1973, 2).
central to the functioning of Indian commerce Family firms utilized the extended kin
and industry in the eighteenth century. It group as a source of managerial expertise
was, in fact, key to both economic...
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