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Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as Muslim technology
This talk will discuss how a small-town Newspaper used lithographic technology to cast a significant slice of Urdu journalism conversation as distinctively Muslim. Discussing a chapter of the recently published book Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India, the talk will discuss the development of the newspaper Madinah as an extension of networks of correspondence and kinship in North Indian qasbahs. Distinctive deployment of lithographic technology helped to transform the far-flung qasbah of Bijnor into an imagined “city” both intimately connected to the world and a place set apart from dangerously Westernized cities.
Date:
18 May 2021, 14:00
Venue:
Online -Teams
Speaker:
Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)
Organising department:
South Asian Studies
Organiser contact email address:
asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-south-asian-studies-seminar-series-trinity-term-tickets-150876416423
Booking email:
asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Salter
