FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia

Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu, Asian languages and Literature, University of Washington

 

Chair: Prof. Mohammed Asaduddin, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

This talk introduces the world of late 19th century Urdu print, in which a dynamic and interactive literary culture flourished. Readers and writers cultivated cosmopolitan affiliations in the pages of Urdu – language periodicals and newspapers such as Avadh Akhbar and Avadh Punch