Print and the urdu public : muslims, newspapers, and urban life in colonial india / Megan Eaton Robb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robb, Megan Eaton, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urdu newspapers--History--India--Bijnor--20th century.

Urdu newspapers.

Press--History--India--Bijnor--20th century.

Press.

Madīnah (Bijnor, India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Print and the Urdu Public' 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.

Contents:

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

Putting the Public House of Madīnah on the Muslim Map

Back to the Future Qasbah: The Timescape of Bijnor

Urdu Lithography as a Muslim Technology

Viewing the Map of Europe through the Lens of Islam

Provincializing Policies through the Urdu Public

Conclusion: The Public as a Timescape.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-008939-3

0-19-008940-7

0-19-008938-5