Francesca Orsini, <i>Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India</i> (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2009, pp. 310

Stark, Ulrike

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“…125 Papers often combined reports of prophecies or "magical" occurrences alongside articles on science, discourses on religion or law, and of course poetry and fiction. 126 Dialogue was a format used most extensively by the Indian Punches, 127 satirical magazines, and was used to underscore divergences from expected or appropriate behaviour in both daily life and concerning affairs of state. Yet as the above shows, dialogue could also be a vehicle for serious news items, which traded both on the dark humour of the Punch vignettes and on the generic conventions of popular theatre, bringing otherwise dry editorial commentary to life for listeners.…”

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Akbar or Aurangzeb? Ethics, Empire, and Print Publics in Colonial India

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In the 1870s, Indian news editors warned their readers of a series of crises threatening India. They saw the famines, wars, and poverty that they were describing as symptoms of the same illness: Colonial governors had failed to implement an ethical system of governance, and had therefore failed to create a healthy body politic, choosing to expend energy in punishing or censoring dissent when they should have been constructing more durable civic institutions. In North India, earlier Mughal traditions of political philosophy and governance offered a template to critique the current state. In drawing on these traditions, editors linked multiple registers of dissent, from simple ‘fables’ about emperors to more sophisticated arguments drawn from newly reinterpreted akhlaq texts, creating a print record of the multilingual, multivalent literary and oral worlds of Indian political thought. The figures of the Mughal emperors Akbar and Aurangzeb, representing the zenith and nadir of Mughal sovereignty, in turn linked popular and learned discussions on statecraft, good governance, and personal responsibility in an age of crisis. The press itself became a meeting point for multivalent discourses connecting South Asian publics, oral and literate, in their exploration of the nature of just rule in the context of empire, calling, in the process, new ‘publics’ into being.

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Akbar or Aurangzeb? Ethics, Empire, and Print Publics in Colonial India

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Francesca Orsini, Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2009, pp. 310

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