• Nineteenth Century's Urdu World and Colonialism

    Author(s):
    Muhammad Naeem (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Literary theory, Settler Colonialism
    Subject(s):
    Imperialism, Postcolonialism, South Asia, Urdu literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/epq9-ms97
    Abstract:
    The article takes account of the colonial archives and analyses the strategies of colonizers, which brought about not only the new forms of knowledge in India but also restructured the society and statecraft here. I argue that the colonial administration developed the public instruction department to impart a new character to the natives and used the middle class to disseminate the new forms of knowledge and made possible its hegemony and usurpation with their help. The strategies adopted by the colonizers to administer India, through the registration, settlement and census reports, opened the way to religious polarization. I have tried to be specific about those colonial policies, which directly targeted and influenced the Urdu reading public in the 19th century.
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    Publisher:
    University of the Punjab, Lahore
    Pub. Date:
    2011-12-30
    Journal:
    Oriental College Magazine
    Volume:
    86
    Issue:
    4
    Page Range:
    89 - 126
    ISSN:
    1991-7007
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial
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