Introduction and How to Use this Book
1. Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies
2. The Arabic Element
3. The Hindi Element
4. The Persian Element
5. The Prakrit and Sanskrit Element
Appendix I. Arabic Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix II: Hindi Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix III: Persian Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix IV: Sanskrit Verbal Noun Charts
Index of Topics and Lessons.
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Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu’mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill’s online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 – 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2009.
Gregory Maxwell Bruce is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Picture Gallery (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) which is the first and only English translation of Nigāristān by Muʿīnī Juvainī and is compiled from Edward Rehatsek's (1819–1891) original manuscript, Nigāristān: A Facsimile Edition (Mazda Publishers, 2023), Urdu Vocabulary (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Syracuse University Press, 2020). His shorter writings about the history of Persian and Persianate intellectual history and literature in South Asia can be found, inter alia, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Iranian Studies, and SUFI.N.
