Learning How to Print in Colonial North India: The Nizami Press in Budaun and the First Urdu Manual on the Art of Lithography

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI:10.1163/24519197-bja10038
Gianni Sievers
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This article centers on an Urdu-language manual on lithography, published in 1924 by the Nizami Press in Budaun (United Provinces), to explore how a Muslim printer-publisher in a North Indian qaṣbah tried to reform educational methods in his trade. It introduces the Nizami Press (est. 1905) and compares the manual with similar European and Indian instructional handbooks. How did Indian printers and publishers learn their craft? What were the tools and materials used for lithographic printing in colonial India? And given the popularity of lithography, why were such manuals rarely published in Indian languages? By examining the material and technical aspects of the lithographic printing process explained in the Urdu manual, this article engages with larger scholarly debates revolving around knowledge production, pedagogy, and technological developments in South Asia. Furthermore, it analyzes the manual’s language to demonstrate how printers and publishers were engaged in discourses about nationalism, modernization, and social reform.
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学习如何在北印度殖民地印刷:布达恩的尼扎米出版社和第一本乌尔都语平版印刷艺术手册
本文以1924年由布达恩的尼扎米出版社出版的一本乌尔都语平版印刷手册为中心,探讨北印度qaṣbah的穆斯林印刷出版商如何试图改革其贸易中的教育方法。它介绍了Nizami出版社(1905年出版),并将该手册与类似的欧洲和印度教学手册进行了比较。印度的印刷商和出版商是如何学习他们的手艺的?在殖民时期的印度,平版印刷使用的工具和材料是什么?考虑到平版印刷术的普及,为什么这样的手册很少用印度语出版?通过研究乌尔都语手册中解释的平版印刷过程的材料和技术方面,本文参与了围绕南亚知识生产、教学和技术发展的更大的学术辩论。此外,它还分析了手册的语言,以展示印刷商和出版商如何参与有关民族主义,现代化和社会改革的话语。
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