Datla, Kavita Saraswathi.

The language of secular Islam Urdu nationalism and colonial India / [electronic resource] : Kavita Saraswathi Datla. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages :) : illustrations, map

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.

Muslims and secular education : the beginnings of Osmania University -- Reforming a language : creating textbooks and cultivating Urdu -- Muslim pasts : writing the history of India and the history of Islam -- Locating Urdu : Deccani, Hindustani, and Urdu -- Secular projects and student politics : "Vande mataram" in Hyderabad.

9780824837914 (electronic bk.) 0824837916 (electronic bk.)


Osmania University--History.


Urdu language--Political aspects--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Language and education--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Muslim educators--Political activity--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Language policy--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture


Hyderabad (India : State)--Languages--Political aspects.


Electronic books.

PK1979 / .D38 2013eb

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