From Hindi to Urdu A Social and Political History

Tariq Rahman is presently Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. He is also HEC Distinguished National Professor and Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Dr Rahman has been a guest professor in Denmark and Spain, and a Fulbright research scholar (1995-96) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He was also the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at University of California, Berkeley (2004-05). He has been a research fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies and the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He is the recipient of several awards: the Presidential Pride of Performance (1994), HEC Lifetime Achievement Award, the highly prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2012) from Germany, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2013. In 2014, he was awarded a DLitt by the University of Sheffield for all of his published research.

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1. Introduction
2. Names
3. Age
4. Origins and Historiography
5. Identity: the Muslimisation of Urdu
6. Urdu as an Islamic Language
7. Urdu as an Amorous and Erotic Language
8. The British and Hindustani
9. Urdu in the Princely States
10. Urdu in Education
11. Urdu in Print
12. Urdu on the Radio
13. Urdu on the Screen
14. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
2. Names
3. Age
4. Origins and Historiography
5. Identity: the Muslimisation of Urdu
6. Urdu as an Islamic Language
7. Urdu as an Amorous and Erotic Language
8. The British and Hindustani
9. Urdu in the Princely States
10. Urdu in Education
11. Urdu in Print
12. Urdu on the Radio
13. Urdu on the Screen
14. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index