[Reader-list] Talk on Sharar's Guzashta Lakhnau

[Ravikant]

You are invited to CSDS seminar Room (29 Oct, 2009,Thursday, 3.30 PM)  for a 

Talk by CM Naim, Professor Emeritus, Univ of Chicago: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._M._Naim

on 

INTERROGATING “THE EAST,” “CULTURE,” AND “LOSS,” IN ABDUL HALIM SHARAR’S 
Guzashta Lakhna’u

Abdul Halim ‘Sharar’ ( -1926) is considered the pioneer of the historical 
novel in Urdu; the other reason for his fame is his remarkable book on the 
history and culture of Lucknow during the heydays of the Nawabs. Commonly 
known as Guzashta Lakhna’u (The Lucknow of the Past), its original title was 
Hindustan Me Mashriqi Tamaddun ka Aakhiri Namuuna (The Last Example of 
Eastern Culture in India). In my paper I try to interrogate the key words in 
the original title, in order to more fully understand the intellectual 
context of the book and what could have been some tacit assumptions 
under-girding Sharar’s authorial enterprise. 


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