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Preface
Christopher Shackle: Introduction: Urdu, nation, and community
Vasudha Dalmia : Introduction: Hindi, nation, and community
I. GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND MYTHOLOGY
1. Altaf Husain "Hali" (1837-1914) : The flow and ebb of Islam / Christopher Shackle
2. Shahab al-Din Ahmad "Saqib" (fl. 1857-1863) and Hakim Muhammad "Ahsan" (fl. 1857-1863) : The lament for Delhi / Pasha Mohamad Khan
3. Shridhar Pathak (1860-1928) : The beauty of Kashmir / Valerie Ritter
4. Brij Mohan Dattatreya "Kaifi" (1866-1955) : A mirror for India / Christopher Shackle
5. Prempyari Devi (late nineteenth century) : The story of the globe / Geeta Patel
6. Shiv (late nineteenth century) : About the nation and Bharat's Young Warriors / Geeta Patel
7. Muhammad Iqbal (1879-1938) : Himalaya; the anthem of India; and the anthem of the community / Christopher Shackle
8. Premchand (1880-1936) : The world's most precious object / Allison Busch
9. Maithilisharan Gupta (1886-1964) : The slaying of Jayadrath / Pamela Lothspeich
10. Vrindavanlal Varma (1889-1966) : Rani Lakshmi Bai / Harleen Singh
II. CONFRONTING THE COLONIAL STATE
11. Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) : The tangles of Panch / Vasudha Dalmia
12. Shibli Nomani (1857-1914) : You are not oppressors, by any means, but still we are oppressed; religion or politics; and Muslim League / A. Sean Pue
13. Balmukund Gupta (1865-1907) : Shivshambhu's letters to Lord Curzon / Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark
14. Brij Narain "Chakbast" (1882-1926) : A spat with Lord Curzon / Mehr Farooqi
15. Josh Malihabadi (1896-1982) : Address to the sons of the East India Company / Christopher Shackle
16. Ganga Prasad Shrivastav (1890-1962) : The lawyer's argument / Rahul Bjorn Parson
17. Sa'adat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) : The progressive graveyard / Pasha Mohamad Khan
III. CONFINED SPACES
18. "Munir" Shikohabadi (1819-1881) : On his imprisonment / Christopher Shackle
19. Shivrani Devi (d.1976) : In Premchand's Home / Preetha Mani
20. Sacchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan "Ajneya" (1911-1987) : Shekhar: A Life / Vasudha Paramasivan
IV. POLITICAL NATIONALISM
21. "Akbar" Ilahabadi (1846-1921) : Satirical verses and excerpts from "Dialogue between new and old ways" / Mehr Farooqi
22. Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) : The sad state of India / Francesca Orsini
23. Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) : Levee lacks levity / Rupert Snell
24. Thakur Jagmohan Singh (1857-1899) : The Play of the Hookah-Smoker: a Farce in Four Acts / Robert van de Walle
25. Zafar Ali Khan (1873-1956) : India; Tommy Raj; The Christian church; Martial law; Fate's decree; The tale of Aurangzeb's Burning of sacred threads; The lightning of Islam and The threshing floor of Shuddhi; and Urdu / Christopher Shackle
26. Sahajanand Saraswati (1889-1950) : The peasants of Gaya and our 1933 confrontation with government / Walter Hauser and Kailash Chandra Jha
27. Chaudhuri Abdul Ghani (1890-1932) : National gatherings: our organizations / Justin Jones
V. LINGUISTIC NATIONALISM
28. Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885) : A discourse on the progress of Hindi / Vasudha Dalmia
29. Ganeshbihari Mishra, Shyambihari Mishra, Shukdevbihari Mishra (1879-1951) : An early moment in the development of Hindi literary history / Allison Busch
30. Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (1864-1938) : The present state of Hindi / Sujata Mody
31. Badrinath Bhatt (1891-1934) : Exposed / Avinash Kumar
VI. ABOUT WOMEN
32. Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) : Lessons from London / Christopher Shackle
33. Ayodhyasinh Upadhyay "Hariaudh" (1865-1947) : Absence of the beloved / Valerie Ritter
34. Balaji (late nineteenth century) : Suitable literature for women in Hindi / Shobna Nijhawan
35. Shiv Sharma (late nineteenth century) : Instructions for women / Charu Gupta
36. Ramrakh Singh Sahgal (1896-1952) : Women's society and Seva-Dharma / Balraj Persaud
37. Chaturbhuj Ji Divaniya (late nineteenth century) : Sushila / Sneha Desai
38. Jainendra Kumar (1905-1988) : Sunita / Sophie Hartman
VII. UNTOUCHABILITY
39. Ramchandra Shukla (late nineteenth century) : The untouchable's lament / Toral Gajarawala
40. Achhutanand (1879-1933) : The justice of Ram-Rajya / Sarah Beth
41. Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala" (1896-1961) : Chaturi, The Shoemaker / Scott Schlossberg
VIII. NATIONALISM - NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS
42. Hasan Nizami (1878-1955) : Hasan Nizami's journey around the world in the year 2050 / Zain Shirazi
43. Premchand (1880-1936) : Godaan - the gift of a cow / Gordon C. Roadarmel
44. Sa'adat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) : The urinal / Richard Delacy.