Ralph Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Life in Urdu
This book brings together writing by Ralph Russell, the eminent 20th century scholar of Urdu, which illuminates his life-long engagement with Urdu speakers and their literature. He learnt Urdu as a young man sent to India for war service in 1941, went on to study its literature in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he taught for 30 years, spent extended periods in South Asia working alongside Urdu-speaking scholars, and b…
Life in Urdu
The Oxford India Ghalib
Introduced and selected by Ralph Russell, an eminent Urdu scholar, this collection presents a representative selection of the works of Ghalib, the most famous and popular of the Urdu poets that the Indian subcontinent has produced. This complete Ghalib anthrology comprises poetry and prose translated from both Persian and Urdu, as well as biographical details
The Pursuit of Urdu Literature
South Asian languages in Britain
Safder Alladina's analysis of the position of South Asian languages in Britain leaves much to be desired. It concerns itself largely with Urdu, to a lesser extent with Hindi, and hardly at all with the other three languages (Bengali, Gujarati and Panjabi) which he rightly declares to be important in the British context. With regard to Urdu and Hindi he uncritically accepts clearly untenable conclusions advanced by Grierson. His description of lan…
Punjabi journalism in Britain
(1976). Punjabi journalism in Britain: A background. New Community: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 211-221
Ghalib. The Poet and His Age
Ghalib (1797-1869), nobleman, wit, poet and litterateur, was the last great literary figure produced by Mughal India. The papers in this volume present aspects of the man, the poet and his age as they appear through the eyes of eminent scholars. The aim is to make Ghalib accessible to that large audience which is aware of his greatness but can approach him only through the medium of English
The Satirical Verse of Akbar Ilāhābādī (1846-1921)
Akbar Ilāhābādī-Akbar of Allahabad- has been the victim of much injustice at the hands of scholars, both in the West and in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent that was his homeland. The reason is a simple one. Akbar's fame is based-and quite properly based-upon his humorous verse; and scholars tend to be rather solemn people who may enjoy reading humorous verse in the brief periods of recreation which they allow themselves, but to whom the thought si…
Three Mughal Poets
Ghalib
Three Mughal Poets
The Pursuit of the Urdu Ghazal
It is now more than twenty years ago that I was first introduced to the Urdu ghazal -the classical Urdu lyric-and found with something like dismay that there was almost nothing about it which I understood and liked. This was not because I had not an adequate command of the language. I had begun speaking Urdu in 1942, and from about 1945 had acquired some competence in the language of prose literature. Nor was it because I was not moderately well …
The Assumption and Eternity
The Pursuit of the Urdu Ghazal
It is now more than twenty years ago that I was first introduced to the Urdu ghazal -the classical Urdu lyric-and found with something like dismay that there was almost nothing about it which I understood and liked. This was not because I had not an adequate command of the language. I had begun speaking Urdu in 1942, and from about 1945 had acquired some competence in the language of prose literature. Nor was it because I was not moderately well …
The Satirical Verse of Akbar Ilāhābādī (1846-1921)
Akbar Ilāhābādī-Akbar of Allahabad- has been the victim of much injustice at the hands of scholars, both in the West and in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent that was his homeland. The reason is a simple one. Akbar's fame is based-and quite properly based-upon his humorous verse; and scholars tend to be rather solemn people who may enjoy reading humorous verse in the brief periods of recreation which they allow themselves, but to whom the thought si…
Ghalib
The Assumption and Eternity
The Pursuit of the Urdu Ghazal
It is now more than twenty years ago that I was first introduced to the Urdu ghazal -the classical Urdu lyric-and found with something like dismay that there was almost nothing about it which I understood and liked. This was not because I had not an adequate command of the language. I had begun speaking Urdu in 1942, and from about 1945 had acquired some competence in the language of prose literature. Nor was it because I was not moderately well …
Ghalib
Three Mughal Poets
Three Mughal Poets
Ghalib. The Poet and His Age
Ghalib (1797-1869), nobleman, wit, poet and litterateur, was the last great literary figure produced by Mughal India. The papers in this volume present aspects of the man, the poet and his age as they appear through the eyes of eminent scholars. The aim is to make Ghalib accessible to that large audience which is aware of his greatness but can approach him only through the medium of English
The Satirical Verse of Akbar Ilāhābādī (1846-1921)
Akbar Ilāhābādī-Akbar of Allahabad- has been the victim of much injustice at the hands of scholars, both in the West and in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent that was his homeland. The reason is a simple one. Akbar's fame is based-and quite properly based-upon his humorous verse; and scholars tend to be rather solemn people who may enjoy reading humorous verse in the brief periods of recreation which they allow themselves, but to whom the thought si…
Punjabi journalism in Britain
(1976). Punjabi journalism in Britain: A background. New Community: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 211-221
South Asian languages in Britain
Safder Alladina's analysis of the position of South Asian languages in Britain leaves much to be desired. It concerns itself largely with Urdu, to a lesser extent with Hindi, and hardly at all with the other three languages (Bengali, Gujarati and Panjabi) which he rightly declares to be important in the British context. With regard to Urdu and Hindi he uncritically accepts clearly untenable conclusions advanced by Grierson. His description of lan…
The Pursuit of Urdu Literature
The Oxford India Ghalib
Introduced and selected by Ralph Russell, an eminent Urdu scholar, this collection presents a representative selection of the works of Ghalib, the most famous and popular of the Urdu poets that the Indian subcontinent has produced. This complete Ghalib anthrology comprises poetry and prose translated from both Persian and Urdu, as well as biographical details
A Life in Urdu
This book brings together writing by Ralph Russell, the eminent 20th century scholar of Urdu, which illuminates his life-long engagement with Urdu speakers and their literature. He learnt Urdu as a young man sent to India for war service in 1941, went on to study its literature in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he taught for 30 years, spent extended periods in South Asia working alongside Urdu-speaking scholars, and b…
Life in Urdu
History (11 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (9 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Urdu (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)