As a celebration of our alumni, each month we will highlight a new book written by one of
Oxford's alumni.
Our February 2024 book is "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India"
by Megan Robb (New College, 2010).
Megan Eaton Robb is the Julie and Martin Franklin Associate Professor in Religious Studies. She is primarily a historian of Islam in South Asia, and her work overall investigates Islam in South Asia, viewed from the perspective of Urdu print publics. She presses on issues that illuminate the religious identity of Muslims in the 20th century and adds attention to material texts to studies of Urdu journalism. Her first book Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life was published with Oxford University Press in October 2020. The book focuses on how the changing cultural and political climate of colonial India urged Muslims to expand the influence of existing print networks and make them distinctly Muslim. She analyzes this connection from a microstudy of both the discourse and materiality of Madinah newspaper, a paper printed from Bijnor qasbah that presented itself as a voice for Muslims.
You can purchase "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" here.
Are you an alumni author?
If you have written a book which was published within the last three years, or is due to be released soon, please email us the following information.
Your full name
A high-quality headshot
A short bio
Alumni number (or college/year of matriculation)
Title of book
Date of publication
ISBN
Link to purchase the book online
We thank you for sharing your books with us, and will let you know if you are selected for a feature in the coming months.
Please visit our archive page to look back at previous Alumni Authors