Francesca M Orsini

The Oxford India Premchand (Oxford India Collection)

Premchand (1880-1936) was a pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature. This omnibus edition of his works gathers together two distinguished novels (Nirmala and Gaban) and two short-story collections (The World of Premchand and Widows, Wives and Other Heroines). It also includes an introduction by...

The Hindi Public Sphere (1920-1940): Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism (Oxford India Collection)

This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. To a colonized people agitating for freedom, a people divided by many languages, cultures and religions, the one language--one nation concept of nationalism proved to be both powerful and sed...

Love in South Asia: A Cultural History (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)

Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a crucial role in defining it. Idioms of love have a long history, and within every society there is always more than one discourse, be it prescriptive, religious, or gender-specific, available at any given time. This book explores the i...

Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture

Based on a workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture is an attempt to rethink aspects of the literary histories of these two languages. Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, litera...

The History of the Book in South Asia (The History of the Book in the East)

The history of the book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that dominated book production and circulation, and printing technology only began to make an impact in the la...

Debating World Literature

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of th...

The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

In this fascinating book, Francesca Orsini documents the creation and development of a public sphere that shaped literature, language, and religious nationalism during the nationalist movement in India.

The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

Love in South Asia: A Cultural History

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