Megan EatonRobb: Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp. xi + 247.

Abstract

My four major issues mainly testify to the incomparable scholarship of this pioneer of the current healthy state of evangelical historiography. The collection ends with a delight. A survey of changing patterns of worship since 1965 is based, not on the vast library of primary and secondary sources found in the typical Bebbington address or article, but on his own notebooks, recording his impressions of hundreds of church services he has attended personally. This chapter is a cogent demonstration of the much-debated proposition that religious history is better understood by those who practise and believe it than by those who, in the interests of objectivity, keep their distance.