SAMP acquires Rahbar-i Dakan

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Judy Alspach - jalspach@crl.edu
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The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) announces the availability of Rahbar-i Dakan, one of the most influential Urdu papers published in India, for the period 1925–46. SAMP preserved the rare and fragile paper from the collection of the Urdu Documentation Centre in Hyderabad.

For more details, see the CRL catalog record for this title.

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