Walter Hakala

Literature and languages of North India and Central Asia; lexicography; Mughal and early colonial South Asian history; South Asian Islam and Sufism.

Spring 2015

Eng 383A - Studies in World Lit: India

T Th 3:30 - 4:50
Reg. No. 23140

T Th 11:00 - 12:20
AS 446 (#23684) / ENG 446 (#23147)

Fall 2014

ENG 576 – LITERATURE & SOCIETY (TRANSLATION)
Monday 12:30-3:10, Clemens 1032
Registration Numbers: (A) 23606 (B) 23607

ENG 221 - WORLD LITERATURE
MWF 9:00 - 9:50
Reg. No. 23575

“Negotiating Terms: Urdu Lexicography and the Definition of Modern South Asia.” A book-length study of the diverse genres and personas associated with the 700-year tradition of Urdu and Hindi lexicography in South Asia.

“The Authorial Problem in the _Khāliq Bārī_ of ‘Khusrau’.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 51, no. 4 (2014):481-96.
“A Sultan in the Realm of Passion: Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Delhi.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 4 (2014), pages 371-88.
A Masnavi in Praise of Coffee: [Prepared] at the bidding of Nawab ‘Umdat Al-Mulk Amir Khan Bahadur by Shah Hatim (1699-1783).” Translated with M.A. Naru. Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 4 (2014), pages 425-27.
“On Equal Terms: The Equivocal Origins of an Early Mughal Indo-Persian Vocabulary .” The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS).
"Languages as a Key to Understanding Afghanistan's Cultures." Education About Asia 17, no. 2 (2012), pages 42-46. Republished in 2014 as part of the National Geographic Online Education Collection.
"Locating ‘Pashto’ in Afghanistan: A Survey of Secondary Sources." Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and its Neighbors, edited by Harold Schiffman, and Brian Spooner, 53-88. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

University at Buffalo Office of the Vice President for Research/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, fall 2013.

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