FORT WILLIAM COLLEGE
and Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani
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Saturday April 17, 2010, 10:30-3:30
Columbia University, Knox Hall, room 208
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The workshop is sponsored by the Southern Asian Institute and the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. It is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required:
*REGISTRATION FORM*
(not available yet)
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Workshop schedule:
10:00-10:30 coffee ~~
10:30-12:30:
readings
12:30-1:30: lunch ~~
1:30-3:30:
discussion
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STUDY MATERIALS FOR THE
WORKSHOP
(copies of selected parts
of this material will be made available at the workshop itself and will
be read and discussed)
*Bagh-o-Bahar
(the Qissah of
the Four Darvesh)*
*Baital
pachchisi
(the
Twenty-five [tales] of the Baital)*
*An attempt at compiling a Fort William bibliography*
*Shamsur
Rahman
Faruqi,
'Early Urdu Literary Culture and History', Chapter 1* (on
Gilchrist and Hindi/Urdu)
*J. B. Gilchrist, 'The
General East India Guide', Appendix II* (on his theories of
language)
*Rita
Raley "A Teleology of
Letters;
or, From a 'Common Source' to a Common Language"* (on Gilchrist and
Hindi/Urdu)
*Muhammad Sadiq, from
'A History of Urdu Literature'*, Delhi, 1984 [1964] (denying the
importance of Fort William)
*Ram Babu Saksena,
from 'A History of Urdu Literature'*, Allahabad, 1940 [1927]
(emphasizing the importance of Fort William)
*Tara
Chand, 'The Problem of Hindustani', Chapter 3* (Allahabad, 1944)
(on nomenclature)
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