Cosmopolitan Dreams : : The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia / / Jennifer Dubrow.

In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pages of Urdu-language periodicals and newspapers, readers found a public sphere that not only catered to their interests but encouraged their reactions to featured cont...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface. Cosmopolitan Dreams
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: Print, Literary Modernity, and the Urdu Cosmopolis
  • Chapter One. Printing the Cosmopolis
  • Chapter Two. The Novel in Installments
  • Chapter Three. Experiments with Form
  • Chapter Four. Reading the World
  • Conclusion: New Spaces of the Urdu Cosmopolis
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index