Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making Of Modern Urdu Literary Culture In Colonial South Asia by Jennifer Dubrow
Reviewed by Ayesha Abrar
Publication: Volume 3 Issue 4
Keywords: Urdu Cosmopolitanism, Colonial Modernity, Nineteenth Century Print Culture
Ayesha Abrar (ayesha1245@gmail.com) is a PhD scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India. Her research interests include the study of early Urdu modernity in print cultures in the Indian subcontinent. She is interested in interrogating notions of modernity and national consciousness in the socio-literary cultures of the subcontinent, especially during the defining period of late nineteenth century. Her interests also include the study of orality and rhetoric in the age of print capitalism during the colonial rule in India.