Islam on the Indian Subcontinent: Language, Literature, Culture and History (Cracow Indological Studies, Vol. 11)

Edition of 300 copies. --- CONTENTS: Ashok Vajpeyi, Looking Askance at Being: A Note on Ghalib from a Hindi Poet; Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Power, Culture and Language of Poetry: The Transition from Vali to Ghalib; Tariq Rahman, The Language of Love: A Study of the Amorous and Erotic Associations of Urdu; Danuta Stasik, Perso-Arabic Lexis in the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas; Gail Minault, Zay Khay Sheen, Aligarh's Purdah-Nashin Poet; Christina Oesterheld, Jihadi Literature? Some novels of Nasim Hijazi; Renata Czekalska, Images of India's Muslim Past in Modern Hindi Poetry: Five Poems on Three Cities by Kunwar Narain; Daniela Bredi, Nostalgia in the Re-Construction of Muslim Identity in the Aftermath of 1857 and the Myth of Delhi; Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fras, History Preserved in Names: Delhi Urban Toponyms of Perso-Arabic Origin; Kinga Maciuszak, Persian Lexicography in India; Tariq Rahman, The Learning of Persian in South Asia: The Curricula and Educational Institutions for Teaching Persian in South Asia; David Lelyveld, Sir Sayyid's Public Sphere: Urdu Print and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century India; André Wink, On the Road of Failure: The Afghans in Mughal India; Kamila Junik, Between Tradition and Modernity: Fatima Jinnah