How Not to Write the History of Urdu Literature
and Other Essays on Urdu and Islam
Published in July 1999
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-0-19-564749-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together several of Ralph Russell's essays published in a wide range of periodicals and books since the 1960s as well as some further unpublished pieces. The essays deal both with Urdu and with Islam in South Asia. The collection should appeal to anyone interested in Urdu and its evolving destiny on the Indian subcontinent.