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- Publications
- Influence
Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow: Gender, Genre, and Visuality in the Creation of a Literary 'Canon'
- Shobna Nijhawan
- Art
- 20 February 2019
Gendered lives in vernacular fiction: Redefining family in Hindi short stories of the early 1940s
- Shobna Nijhawan
- History
- 1 January 2019
This article is embedded in discourses surrounding the new mobility of people as well as scientific, technological and socio-cultural changes in a late-colonial setting. It investigates how a number… Expand
Christine Everaert's Tracing the Boundaries Between Hindi and Urdu (Review Article)
- Shobna Nijhawan
- History
- 2014
Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. By Walter Hakala. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780231178303 (cloth, also available as e-book).
- Shobna Nijhawan
- History
- 1 November 2017
Adoption in Hindi Fiction: Contesting Normative Understandings of Parenting and Parenthood in Late Colonial India
- Shobna Nijhawan
- History
- 2 September 2020
Abstract This article examines gendered lives in vernacular fiction by focusing on the topic of child adoption as fictionalised in Hindi literature in late colonial India (1920s). It argues that… Expand
Hindi, Urdu or Hindustani? Revisiting ‘National Language’ Debates through Radio Broadcasting in Late Colonial India
- Shobna Nijhawan
- Political Science
- 28 January 2016
Asking how the nationalist intelligentsia and Hindi literati sought to interact with and shape the new medium of radio in a period of time that witnessed the establishment of All India Radio’s… Expand
Nationalizing the Consumption of Tea for the Hindi Reader: The Indian Tea Market Expansion Board's advertisement campaign *
- Shobna Nijhawan
- History
- 1 September 2017
In analysing a campaign launched by the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board in a Hindi literary periodical, this article seeks to read tea advertisements within the cultural history of gendered lives… Expand