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From Casual Cover to Archival Piece: A Fragment of Hyderabad’s 1945 Newspaper
– Riasath Ali Asrar Sometimes history doesn’t come wrapped in grand manuscripts or carefully preserved archives. Sometimes, it slips between the pages, quite literally. While cataloguing a completely unrelated book, we stumbled upon a surprising find – a fragment of a 1945 Hyderabad newspaper, casually repurposed as book-binding material. What was once junk paper now…
“The Poison Belt” and “Faust” – World Literature, Translations and Urdu Cosmopolitanism in 20th Century Hyderabad
by Maleeha Fatima and Riasath Ali Asrar The vibrant nature of Hyderabad’s Urdu literature in the first half of the 20th century can be highlighted through the examples of two books from our ‘Riasat Ali Taaj Collections’ – Halqa e Masmoom (1925) and Faust (1931) – both being Urdu translations of ‘The Poison Belt’ (1913)…
