अष्टभुजा शुक्ल की अनेक कविताओं का कथ्य भी बहुत समस्याग्रस्त है। उनमें प्रतिक्रियावादी मूल्य भरे पड़े हैं। इन कविताओं को पढ़ते हुए लगता है कि वे समाज को पीछे ले जाने वाले कवि हैं। इस लेख में उनकी कविता की प्रतिगामिता पर चर्चा की गई है।

This study explores the changing relationship of communities in Colonial and Post-colonial Urdu Literature. It attempts to map out the communal space in the symbolic world of literature given to the Christians over a century by Urdu fiction writers. In colonial India, the missionary activities especially for female education evoked different…[Read more]

This text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]