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Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi’s Mirat-ul Uroos: Through the Lens of the Colonized

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Title Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi’s Mirat-ul Uroos: Through the Lens of the Colonized
 
Creator Mittal, Sangeeta
 
Description There are umpteen “novels” which figure in the “must read” lists of books on the city of Delhi. While most of them include Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali (1940), very few would include a predecessor by the name of Mirat-ul Uroos (1869, translated in 1903 as The Bride’s Mirror) by Maulvi or Diptee Nazir Ahmad. In the context of Delhi, its study is extremely rewarding as the earliest example of ethos in Shahjahanabad affording a rare glimpse into the interiors of the homes and minds of both the male and female native population. This is a Shahjahanabad which is well incorporated into the colonization project, without quite realizing it. The city space, the domestic space, the educational space, the linguistic space and the literary space are all swept by the invisible hegemonic intervention. Ahmad is unaware of the invisible and insidious impacts of colonization and how the British contact has already stamped him and his ilk in an indelible manner- the imprints of which are manifest in The Bride’s Mirror in various ways. The paper focuses on this picture of Shahjahanbad from the point of view of the incipient cultural subjectivity in the early dawn of colonization.
 
Publisher Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
 
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Date 2016-09-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/91
10.15520/jassh20891
 
Source Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2, No 08 (2016)
2395-6542
10.15520/jassh208
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/91/130
 
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