MULOSIGE Reading List: Re-Orienting Modernism, Mapping East-East Exchanges
Assistant Professor Levi Thompson (University of Colorado, Boulder) offers a reading list to re-orient conceptions of modernism, drawing on East-East exchanges.
What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics
Ronah Baha discusses the politics of the BBC's decision to name their BBC Afghanistan page 'BBC Dari', focusing on the rich diversity of Persian literary and civilisational linguistic histories.
Making the child ‘sharīf’ in Urdu textbooks – Muslim, yet not Islamic
Sumaira Nawaz reflects on Urdu educational texts in colonial North India and how they informed new sensibilities and identities across religious divides
Qurratulain Hyder’s The Nautch Girl: A doubly multilingual text
What happens when a text from 17th century India passes through a double translation over the next two centuries? Qurratulain Hyder's translation of Hasan Shah's The Nautch Girl reveals some of the changes that occur when texts move across time and space.