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Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India By Megan Eaton Robb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 246 pp. ISBN: 9780190089375 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2022

Francesca Orsini*
Affiliation:
SOAS, University of London
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022

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References

1 See recent work by Jennifer Dubrow, Brannon Ingram and Barton Scott, Nile Green, Justin Jones, Ray Perkins, M. Raisur Rahman, S. Akbar Zaidi, Mu. Qasim Zaman, and Faridah Zaman.

2 Dubrow, Jennifer, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Datla, KavitaThe Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

3 Intriguingly, Madīnah first became popular in the big cities (p. 163).