...Supriya Gandhi Abstract Around 1867, North Indian religious reformer Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari completed a translation into Urdu of fifty-two Upanishads. Alakhdhari, who later played a key role in establishing the Arya Samaj in the Punjab, wished for Hindus to emulate Christians and Muslims in giving...

...–1978) and his teacher Eduard Spranger (1882–1963) and other actors who thought beyond British imperial educational ideology and practices. Husain engaged with the original writings of German educationists and translated Spranger's canonical text Psychologie des Jugendalters into Urdu as Nafsiyat-i...

...Mehr Afshan Farooqi Literature has always played a synthesizing role in the history of Islam. The same can be said for the Urdu language and literature. Urdu was produced as a result of the mingling of Arabo-Persian-Turkish language with the indigenous languages and cultures primarily of north...

...Scott Kugle Shi`i devotion and Urdu poetry both flourished in unique ways in the Deccan region, but did these cultural phenomena allow new creativity for women? This question can be addressed by examining the courtesan Mah Laqa Bai (AH 1181–1240/1768–1824), one of the most powerful figures...

... literary public, exemplified by Al-Punch , a newspaper born out of a controversy over who had a right to use the Urdu language. Pursuing cosmopolitan impulses while celebrating local culture, the paper invited readers’ collaboration by cultivating a witty and intimate style. While scholarship on South...

...Francesca Orsini Abstract The cultural memory of Awadh is almost exclusively identified with Urdu poetry and courtesan culture, and already in the colonial period it came to stand as the epitome of the “last phase of Oriental culture” (‘Abdul Halim Sharar). But if instead of taking a retrospective...

..., and social movements. This timescape enabled one qasbah, Bijnor, to establish a claim to a future alternative to the national in South Asia through its engagement in an Urdu print public, a multivalenced literary and social space clustered around communications in the language of Urdu. Copyright © 2020...

...Andrew Amstutz Abstract In 1945, Mahmooda Rizvia, a prominent Urdu author from Sindh, published a travel account of her journey across the Arabian Sea from British India to Iraq during World War II. In her travel account, Rizvia conceptualized the declining British Empire as a dynamic space...

... and Urdu as symbolic of national identity, ligious orientation and class power in the jab and among Hindus and Muslims respectively, in the years parry of Pakistani politics, whether military or civilian. prior to partition. The complex relationship of lan- All of the foregoing may make it sound...

... disciplines other than literary analysis.) In part they are regional. (Contributors usually have specialized in a particular culture or language — Turkish, Persian, or Arabic, in addition to lesser-taught languages like Uighur, Urdu, or Uzbek.) Beard describes his experiences as an editor of two projects...

.... This article provides a genealogy of the normative literary acts and material practices at the grave. The tomb's space and its texts reveal a setting that overturns assumptions about vernacular and elite literatures, as it hosted Urdu poetry recitation and cutting-edge Persian verse as well as a medicines...

...Meghan Hartman Abstract This article works toward a theory of lyric in the literary corpus of Mīrājī (1912–1949), an Urdu poet, translator, and critic. The article argues that the lyric is an especially salient place to evaluate the phenomenality of such a relationship between self and world...

... and a cosmopolitan center of cultural life, and at another level, read Indo-Persian city poetry (and as well as being a macrocosm of the narrower spaces Urdu to the extent that it drew its inspiration from Per- that provided the context for the performance of Persi- sian, with which it had a paradoxically...

... the cal stage: the Muhajir Qoumi Movement (MQM), champi- Muhajir wing of the civilian bureaucracy to have outsmarted oning the interests of the Urdu-speaking Muhajirs (migrants the Punjabi military and bureaucracy by engineering the from India) settled in the Sindh province. It took the urban...

...Alamgir Hashmi Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Urdu Letters of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib . Translated by Daud Rahbar. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987. xlv + 628 pages. $48.50. Copyright 1990: South Asia Bulletin 1989 Soulh Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 2,1989...

...Subah Dayal Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Akhter Nurus Syed . “Fatḥ. Nāmah-i Ikkerī az Mirzā Muqīm par tahqīqī naẓ” (“An Inquiry into Mirza Muqim’s Fath Nāmah-i Ikkerī”) . Seh Mahi Urdu 2 ( 1988 ): 108 – 37 . Alam Muzaffar . “ The Pursuit...

... translations of the same poem (“My Guests” in and liberal critics and translators. He was a winner of the Mahmood Jamal, The Penguin Book of Modem Urdu Poetly, Lenin International Peace Prize as well as a British state 1986, “My Visitors” tr. Alamgir Hashmi, Annual of Urdu award. In the Middle...

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... past. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Persian Urdu literature modernity historiography I am grateful to Afshin Marashi and Mana Kia, who commented generously and insightfully on earlier drafts of this article. The article also benefited from the close attention of Sina Salessi...

... . Naushahi Gauhar , ed. Padmavat Urdu . Lahore : Majlis-i Taraqqī-yi Adab , 1986 . 6. Busch, Poetry of Kings , 243 . 5. Busch, Poetry of Kings , 242 . 4. Behl, “Presence and Absence in Bhakti,” 321 . 3. Grierson, “A Specimen of the Padumāwati,” 129 . 2...