Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia 9780824876692

In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There,

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Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia
9780824876692

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Jennifer Dubrow

Table of contents :
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

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