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Film, Video Printing the Urdu Public: Madinah Newspaper and Lithography as a Muslim Technology

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Title

  • Printing the Urdu Public: Madinah Newspaper and Lithography as a Muslim Technology

Summary

  • Watch a discussion on how a small-town newspaper used lithographic technology to cast a significant slice of Urdu journalism conversation as distinctively Muslim. Discussing a chapter of her recently published book, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India", Megan Robb discusses the development of the newspaper Madinah as an extension of networks of correspondence and kinship in North Indian qasbahs.

Event Date

  • September 03, 2021

Running Time

  • 1 hours 24 minutes 37 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Printing the Urdu Public: Madinah Newspaper and Lithography as a Muslim Technology. 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10042/>.