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The Language of Secular Islam : Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India /

During the turbulent period prior to colonial India's partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Datla, Kavita Saraswathi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Muslims and secular education : the beginnings of Osmania University
  • Reforming a language : creating textbooks and cultivating Urdu
  • Muslim pasts : writing the history of India and the history of Islam
  • Locating Urdu : Deccani, Hindustani, and Urdu
  • Secular projects and student politics : "Vande mataram" in Hyderabad.