The Social Space of Language, Volume 2: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab by Farina Mir

The Social Space of Language, Volume 2: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab

Farina Mir

294 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a ...

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