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FORT WILLIAM COLLEGE
and Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani
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Saturday April 17, 2010, 10:30-3:30
Columbia University, Knox Hall, room 208
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The workshop is sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University. It is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required:
*REGISTRATION
FORM*
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This year the workshop honors
the memory of Prof. Aditya Behl of the University of Pennsylvania, dear
friend of many of us and co-host of this workshop series. His sudden
death at the age of 43 was a sad loss to South Asian studies in
general, and
above all to students of Hindi/Urdu literature.
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Workshop schedule:
10:00-10:30 coffee ~~
10:30-12:30:
readings
12:30-1:30: lunch ~~
1:30-3:30:
discussion
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STUDY MATERIALS FOR THE
WORKSHOP
(copies of selected parts
of this material will be made available at the workshop itself and will
be read and discussed)
*Bagh-o-Bahar
(the Qissah of
the Four Darvesh)*
*Baital
pachchisi
(the
Twenty-five
[tales]
of
the
Baital)*
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*An attempt at compiling a Fort William bibliography*
*Shamsur
Rahman
Faruqi,
'Early
Urdu
Literary
Culture
and
History',
Chapter
1* (on
Gilchrist and Hindi/Urdu)
*J. B. Gilchrist, 'The
General East India Guide', Appendix II* (on his theories of
language)
*Rita
Raley "A Teleology of
Letters;
or, From a 'Common Source' to a Common Language"* (on Gilchrist and
Hindi/Urdu)
*Muhammad Sadiq, from
'A History of Urdu Literature'*, Delhi, 1984 [1964] (denying the
importance of Fort William)
*Ram Babu Saksena,
from 'A History of Urdu Literature'*, Allahabad, 1940 [1927]
(emphasizing the importance of Fort William)
*Shaista
Akhtar
Banu
Suhrawardy,
'A
Critical Survey of the Development of the Urdu
Novel and Short Story' (1945), Chapter II* (emphasizing the
importance of Fort William)
*Tara
Chand, 'The Problem of Hindustani', Chapter 3* (Allahabad, 1944)
(on nomenclature)
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