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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 430–431.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Francesca Orsini Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India . By Megan Eaton Robb . New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 246 pp. ISBN: 9780190089375 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Print...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 678–679.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Frances W. Pritchett The Hindi Public Sphere, 1920–1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism . By Francesca Orsini . New Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 2002 . 486 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 678...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 232–234.
Published: 01 February 2005
... in print from the same publisher, with the addition of an introduction and an appendix, both by Francesca Orsini. The four works contained in this volume are two collections of short story translations by David Rubin, The World of Premchand (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Widows, Wives, and Other...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 623–626.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Carla Petievich Love in South Asia: A Cultural History . Edited by Francesca Orsini . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . xii, 368 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This collection of essays—rich...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., embedding positive narratives about the self in even the most painful of chapters in one's history (Orsini 2002 : 31 n. 223). “Mugaloṃ ne” narrates a transfer of political power from one non-Hindu ruler (Mughals) to another (British Crown), allowing an assessment as to whether these two different “others...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 679–680.
Published: 01 May 2003
..." and "r" cases, two different letters, with different sounds, are conflated, creating a source of confusion that could easily have been avoided. Orsini says in her afterword: "The Hindi world we encountered at the beginning of this book was a heterogeneous one: Hindi as a language was unevenly spread over...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 506–509.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and historical events outside British India influenced Urdu imaginative literature. Urdu print culture has received considerable attention in the past few decades. Works by Gail Minault, Mushirul Hasan, Ulrike Stark, Francesca Orsini, Walter Hakala, and, most recently, Megan Eaton Robb have examined...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1065–1067.
Published: 01 November 2000
... what is good and useful from the West while he "continues to revere the good in the older life style" (p. 172). Francesca Orsini studies the Hindi popular social romance of the 1920s, particularly Pandey Becan Sharma Ugra's 1927 Cand hasinom ke khutut, in light of Hans Robert Jauss's three-stage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2005
... Orsini. The four works contained in this volume are two collections of short story translations by David Rubin, The World of Premchand (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Widows, Wives, and Other Heroines (Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as a translation by Alok Rai of the novel Nirmala (OUP...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 937–939.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in these chapters, but as all of the contributions are very clearly written, their essential value will be self-evident. Another advantage lies in the clear evidence that all of these essays are informed by recent scholarship—for example, Maclean cites recent publications of Leah Renold, Francesca Orsini, Gyanesh...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 509–511.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500 ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2010 ), 185 – 224
;
Francesca Orsini
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Samira Sheikh
, eds., After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 ) . All in all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 661–687.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., covering a diverse range of topics (Nijhawan 2012 ; Orsini 2002 ). Cartoons were regularly published in Chand , and many of them were compiled and published by Chand Press under the title Vyanga chitravali . Conversions by outcastes became a regular subject of these caricatures in many newspapers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 556–559.
Published: 01 May 2017
... on the sociology of these literary formations has not kept pace, except for some notable exceptions (see, for instance, the various contributions of Vasudha Dalmia and Francesca Orsini). This is in contrast to the scholarship on early modern Europe and England, or even on second-millennium Japan, where much more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1013–1033.
Published: 01 November 2012
... with the Habermasian model are thus also found in early twentieth-century women's periodicals (Orsini 2002 , 11). While the editorial of the inaugural issue of Stri Darpan still claimed to be oriented along the lines of social reforms and thus instructing women in domestic skills, it was the “uncensored flow...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 May 2009
...; “the prevalent belief” is that books are “unnecessary, even useless”; and “no published calendar” is available in homes (Wood 1985 , 42, 54, quoting Sankaran Nambudiripad). 12 A “reading public” is “an infinitesimal fraction of the vast population,” (quoted in Orsini 2004 , 109), and newspapers, if any...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 983–993.
Published: 01 November 2011
... classified as periods of political decline, by which was typically meant political decentralization (Orsini and Sheikh, forthcoming). To sum up, what characterizes the new historiography of early modern India is an awareness of the distinctions between normative values and social practices...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 517–520.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Francesca Orsini, for example—in showing the complicated impact of Grierson. Both Colonialism and Knowledge and Nation and Region give us opportunities to historicize the idea of India as a multilingual state and to rethink contemporary debates about language policy. Majeed suggests that Grierson...
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Writing Confucian History in an Indian Language: The Transimperial Translation of a “Forged Classic”
Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 931–962.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Asia, such linguistic mediation would be repeated in numerous other instances of inter-Asian translation (Green 2022 ), not only in the age of empire but also in the spread of “world literature” in the postcolonial era (Gvili and Nawaz 2023 ; Novillo-Corvalán and Orsini 2023 ; Orsini 2023 ; Prado...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 February 2011
..., such as in historical novels, essays, travelogues, and memoirs (See Deshpande 2007 , 2008 ; Banerjee 2006 ; Chatterjee 1999 , 2005 ; Orsini 2002 ; Chowdhury 2001 ; Dalmia 2001 ). 4 Accordingly, Pandit's translation includes these 80-odd didactic and poetic verses that Stein's translation overlooks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 980–1000.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Subrahmanyam . 2003 . Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600–1800 . New York : Other . Orsini , Francesca . 2012 . “ How to Do Multilingual Literary History? Lessons from Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century North India .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 49 , no. 2...
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