Through the Lens of Urdu

Abstract This essay examines Adabī dunyā , or Literary World to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. carved niche itself in competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning as worldly world-class terms of its content material form. How this publication circulated was inspired educational impetus ‘ ilmī o adabī genre (roughly translatable “educational literary”). mediated readers’ appreciation authors relying on range forms such survey essay, image, original texts those authors. By focusing representation Dante Alighieri, I show how sought nurture multidimensional readers foreign writers. In so doing, produced local iteration centered culture.