# Tracking the Provenance of Printing in Afghanistan (1871-78)

Elham Bakhtary investigated the lithographs' literary influences and argued that the lithographs espoused a unique ethno-Islamic ideology that challenged the substance of Islamic revivalism in India, but also employed the latter's technological and discursive methods in doing so. The lecture concluded with how this similarity suggests that ideas and print technology in South Asia traveled along similar itineraries in the 19th century.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690674/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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