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Print and the Urdu Public

The Caravan
30 April, 2021

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Print and the Urdu Public
Muslims, Newspapers and Urban Life in Colonial India
Megan Eaton Robb 

Robb revisits the story of the founding of the twentieth-century Urdu newspaper Madinah in 1912 and its rising popularity. Her book also expands into a reading of history of print culture and religious identity in the kashbahs of northern India.  

Oxford University Press India, Rs 475, 263 pages