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About Syed Muhammad Khalid
My undergraduate studies were in English literature at St Stephen's College, New Delhi. My master's was in Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford where my dissertation examined the role of protest libraries and proposed reading as an act of citizenship. Currently, I am a DPhil (PhD) student in English at Oxford, doing a comparative study of postcolonial satirical narratives in Hindi, Urdu and English. My interests are primarily in literary studies, including postcolonial studies, literature in translation, and the philosophy of literature. An avid reader of poetry, I have recently also been invested in early modern Braj and Awadhi works. I am also interested in the intellectual history of Islam in South Asia and questions about the citizenship of Indian Muslims.
Syed Muhammad Khalid is a doctoral student in English at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar
NBN Episodes hosted by Syed Muhammad:
June 29, 2025
The Backstage of Democracy
About the Book Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political co…
February 19, 2025
The Possibility of Literature
The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is a collection of Peter Boxall's essays over twe…
December 23, 2024
Required Reading
In Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2024), Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history…
October 11, 2024
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kit…
May 29, 2024
Everyday Reading
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (U Massachusetts Press, 2024) is a timely book on the history o…
March 5, 2024
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters (Cambridge…
January 29, 2024
East of Delhi
East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (Oxford University Press, 2023) examines literature produced, practiced, and circula…
January 28, 2024
Reader's Block
Matthew Rubery's book Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the influence neurodivergence has on the ways indi…
December 18, 2023
Seeking Supremacy
Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2022) discusses the emergence of the judiciary as an asserti…