The language of secular Islam

Datla, Kavita Saraswathi.

The language of secular Islam Urdu nationalism and colonial India / [electronic resource] : Kavita Saraswathi Datla. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. - xiii, 234 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.

Muslims and secular education : the beginnings of Osmania University -- Reforming a language : creating textbooks and cultivating Urdu -- Muslim pasts : writing the history of India and the history of Islam -- Locating Urdu : Deccani, Hindustani, and Urdu -- Secular projects and student politics : "Vande mataram" in Hyderabad.


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Osmania University--History.


Urdu language--Political aspects--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Language and education--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Muslim educators--Political activity--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.
Language policy--History--India--Hyderabad (State)--20th century.


Hyderabad (India : State)--Languages--Political aspects.


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