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Professor Javed Majeed FBA

Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature
Javed Majeed standing in front of a wooden door
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2021
Subjects
Africa, Asia and Middle East
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Early Modern History to 1850

King’s College London Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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