Francesca Orsini on Literary Activism in Cold War India

Professor Francesca Orsini is the Principal Investigator of the MULOSIGE project, and leader of the North India case study. She is Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, as well as Chair of the CCLPS. Her research interests range from modern and contemporary Hindi literature to the multiligual history of literature in early modern North India. Prior to this project, she ran the AHRC-funded “North Indian Literary Culture and History, 1450–1650” (2006–09) and a British Academy-funded international collaboration with SARAI/CSDS on Hinglish (2014–15).

This webinar was originally posted on Postcolonial Print Cultures  – you can also watch the webinar here.

Francesca Orsini, SOAS University of London

Professor Francesca Orsini  gave this talk as part of the Postcolonial Print Cultures reading groups and webinars. Postcolonial Print Cultures is an interdisciplinary, international research network that brings together scholars who have an interest in the materiality of colonial and postcolonial print cultures of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on South-South connections.

Head over to their website for more fantastic talks and articles about world literature; with a focus on print cultures such as magazines, radio, publications of small and independent presses, and “non-literary” genres such as textbooks and children’s books.


Want to learn more about print cultures and world literature? Read Francesca Orsini’s round up of world literature magazines online: https://mulosige.soas.ac.uk/magazines-and-world-literature-online/