On a Saturday every spring, the Southern Asian Institute and the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University host a one-day WORKSHOP on some topic of South Asian, and especially Urdu/Hindi, literature; nowadays the workshop is often comparative. Counterpart workshops are held every fall at the University of Pennsylvania. These workshops are open to the public, but require registration in advance. Current information is available below. Workshop topics have included: *What is a Shahr-Ashob? (2009) WITH ONLINE MATERIALS* *"Satire
in Braj and Urdu" (2008) WITH ONLINE MATERIALS*
==SEE ALSO: the specially recommended Hindi/Urdu historical background materials *on this site*, some of which are online =Anjum, Zafar, "The Ghost of Urdu: a personal memoir," Sept. 1, 2003, on the Chowk website: [site] =Barz, Richard, and Yogendra Yadav, An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000); the introduction is online: [site] =Bedi, Susham, "Two Sides of a Coin: Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of a Language": [site] =Busch, Allison, "Vernacular Poetics in Early-modern South Asia," in CSSAAME 24,2 (2004): [site] =Freitag, Sandria B., ed., Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989): [site] =Gandhi's last letter on Hindi/Urdu, written 19 days before his assassination: [on this site] =Gold, Ann Grodzins, A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). An example of real, unexpurgated North Indian (Rajasthani) oral storytelling: [site]. At present this text is only available to UC people, but I'm hoping they'll open it up one of these days. =Golshani, Eden, An excellent website on the Indic scripts derived from Brahmi: [site] =Grierson, George, A Bibliography of Western Hindi, Including Hindostani (Bombay: Bombay Education Society, 1903): [site] =Hansen, Kathryn, Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). These 'folk operas' had both Hindi and Urdu forms: [site] =Hurst, Rev. John F., "A Native Publishing House in India," in Harper's New Monthly Magazine 75 (June-Nov 1887), pp. 352-356: [site]. About the early days of the famous Naval Kishor Press. =Insha'allah Khan, "Rani Ketaki ki kahani." The Urdu poet Insha wrote this story in Urdu script but kept it free of all Arabic, Persian, and Sanskritic words, to win a bet and prove it could be done. See the 2007 Workshop material, where the text is presented in both scripts: [on this site]. =Kellogg, Rev. S. H., A Grammar of the Hindi Language (1938 ed.): those excellent comparative dialectical charts are [on this site] =Lal, Vinay, "Sexual Moves, Colonial Maneuvres, and an Indian Game: Masculinity and Femininity in 'The Chess Players'"; on his 'Manas' website: [site] =Majumdar, Rochona, "'Self-Sacrifice' versus 'Self-Interest': a Non-Historicist Reading of the History of Women's Rights in India," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 22,1-2 (2002) (in PDF format): [site]. The article contains much discussion of literary sources. =Pritchett, Frances W., Marvelous Encounters: Folk Romance in Urdu and Hindi (New Delhi: Manohar, 1985): [on this site] =Raley, Rita, "A Teleology of Letters; or, From a 'Common Source' to a Common Language." A theoretical article on the role of Gilchrist in shaping Hindi/Urdu: [site] =Ramaswami, Sumathi. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). A useful case for comparative study: [site] =Russell, Ralph, "Some Notes on Hindi and Urdu," Annual of Urdu Studies 11 (1996): [site] =Russell, Ralph, "Urdu in India since Independence": [site] =Srivastava, Sushil, "Review Article: Christopher King, One Language, Two Scripts," Social Scientist 23, 263-65 (1995): [site] =Tara Chand, "The Problem of Hindustani" (1944), a set of four articles: [on this site] =Yashwant Malaiya's valuable site on the modern Indic languages: [site] =And while we're at it, why not a few
classic Akbar-Birbal jokes? [site]
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