BOOK DISCUSSION "Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia" > 6:30pm on 18th January 2019

Venue : Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 18/01/2019 18:30 18/01/2019 20:00 Asia/Kolkata BOOK DISCUSSION "Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia" Event Page : https://www.delhievents.com/2019/01/book-discussion-cosmopolitan-dreams-making-modern-urdu-literary-culture-colonial-south-asia-india-international-centre.html Conference Room I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Conference Room I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : BOOK DISCUSSION "Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia"

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.

As part of 'Frontiers of History' Series.

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

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