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The Making of Persianate Modernity
  • Language and Literary History between Iran and India
  • Alexander Jabbari
  • Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023
  • From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this book, Alexander Jabbari explores what became of this vast Persian literary heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Iran and South Asia, as nationalism took hold and the Persianate world fractured into nation-states. He shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared past to produce a 'Persianate modernity', and create a modern genre, literary history. Drawing from both Persian and Urdu sources, Jabbari reveals the important role that South Asian Muslims played in developing Iranian intellectual and literary trends. Highlighting cultural exchange in the region, and the agency of Asian modernizers, Jabbari charts a new way forward for area studies and opens exciting possibilities for thinking about language and literature.

  • Chapter 32 - Sappho in India

  • from Part IV - Receptions
  • Edited by P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
    Published online:
    09 April 2021
    Print publication:
    29 April 2021, pp 457-472

  • Summary

    Chapter 32 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho examines the reception of Sappho’s poetry in India, examining figures such as Sir William Jones, Kamala Das, Adela ‘Violet’Nicolson (Laurence Hope), Lord Alfred Douglas, Somerset Maugham, Mohammad Sana’ullah Dar (Miraji), Abdul Aziz Khalid, Keki N. Daruwalla, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, and Beram Saklatvala (Henry Marsh).