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Following Partition, dozens of Urdu publishers, including those printing women's magazines, located in cities such as Lucknow, Delhi, and Mumbai (Bombay), shifted to Pakistan. It is not unusual to find serials published in Delhi and then abruptly publishing from Karachi or Lahore in the months following August 1947. One such example is the women's magazine Jauhar-i Nisvan, published first in Delhi and then in Lahore. Similar to Indian women's serials of this time, post-1947 publications were concerned with appropriate content for the woman in the new country of Pakistan. For more information about that publication and the history that produced it, please refer to the 4 Corners of the World blog post.
Serials in South Asian languages are available in the Library’s Asian Reading Room, while serials in English are available in the Library’s Main Reading Room. See the Item Availability section of a bibliographic record to learn what issues are available at the Library of Congress.
To find out where certain items are located at the Library of Congress, please see the “Item Availability” section at the bottom of a bibliographic record in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Serials in South Asian languages will have the location “Asian Reading Room.” Serials in English are generally available in the Main Reading Room, which is indicated by the phrase “Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms.” You can also use this section to learn what issues of a serial are included in the collection, as in the example below.
AuratShe : the newsmagazine for womenWoman's world (Karachi, Pakistan) (English and Urdu)Women's ownAnnual Report/Gender Justice Through Musalihat Anjuman ProjectDirectory, civic agencies, Karachi/Karachi Administration Women Welfare SocietyPerformance. Ministry of Women Development.Performance. Pakistan. Ministry of Women DevelopmentSolidarity/South Asian Association for Regional CooperationAnnual report. All Pakistan Women's Association.Annual Report. Aurat Publication and Information Service FoundationAnnual report. Gender Justice Through Musalihat Anjuman Project.Aurat / Aurat FoundationThe burst of the Islamic government bubble in Afghanistan : a publication of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)FWU journal of social sciencesPakistan journal of gender studiesPakistan journal of women's studies = Alam-e-niswan = ʻAlam-i nisvān̲Report. All Pakistan Women's Association. Karachi Branch.Women in Parliament : quarterly news magazine of the women parliamentarians from muslim countries.Women's march / PAWS, Pakistan Association for Women's Studies.Chatnār : taḥqīqī majallahPārakh : taḥqīqī majallah.Payām-i zan.ṢadafAk̲h̲bār-i k̲h̲avātīnJauhar-i nisvān̲ = Jauher-e-niswanKh̲avātīn ḍāʼijisṭK̲h̲avātīn kā vaḥdat-i IslāmīK̲h̲avātīn maigzīn.Taranjan : k̲h̲avātīn aur taraqqī k̲h̲abarnāmahT̤ayyibāt : k̲h̲avātīn-i Islām kā tarjumānVarking leḍīz
