Print and the Urdu Public - Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India

Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India addresses Urdu print publics from the perspective of Madinah newspaper, published in Bijnor qasbah of the then-United Provinces, in order to demonstrate how an Urdu newspaper published from the margins became central to the Muslim public constituted in the first half of the twentieth century.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: A Public is a Place and Time: Dimensions of an Urdu Public Sphere


• Chapter 1: Putting the Public House of Madinah on the Muslim Map


• Chapter 2: Back to the Future Qasbah: The Timescape of Bijnor


• Chapter 3: Urdu Lithography as a Muslim Technology


• Chapter 4: Viewing the Map of Europe through the Lens of Islam


• Chapter 5: Provincializing Policies through the Urdu Public


• Conclusion: The Public as a Timescape


• Note on Transliteration


• Appendices


• Bibliography

About the author

Megan Eaton Robb is the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a social and cultural historian specializing in South Asian Islam and Urdu literary publics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Summary

Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India addresses Urdu print publics from the perspective of Madinah newspaper, published in Bijnor qasbah of the then-United Provinces, in order to demonstrate how an Urdu newspaper published from the margins became central to the Muslim public constituted in the first half of the twentieth century.

Additional text

...this is a pioneering study of the material and discursive dimensions of Urdu newspapers and a valuable contribution to the history of print and public in Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Eaton Robb, Megan Eaton (Assistant Professor of South As Robb, Robb Megan Eaton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2020
• EAN: 9780190089375
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008937-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th Century, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, RELIGION / Islam / History, Press & journalism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, News media and journalism