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Chughtai was, and much of her fiction would be made available to anglophone readers in the nineties. (Several other writers in Urdu are world class—that awful term—but the short story is Urdu’s distinctive genre).
the leading trio of Urdu short story writers—Manto, Bedi, and Krishan Chander — came into prominence along with a host of other short story writers. Together they held sway over Urdu fiction for more than two decades, and a number are still active today. The Urdu short story in the period after 1936 branched into
- Classical Urdu Poetry
- Modern Urdu Literature
- Bibliography
Persian poetry was for many centuries one of the major arts to be cultivated across the eastern Islamic world. The patronage of the great Mughal emperors encouraged a further development of Persian poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India by both immigrant and native-born poets. While their works were formally cast in the long established...
While the transition from the classical to the modern period can be sharply marked by the annexation of Avadh by the British in 1856 and the destruction of much of Delhi that followed their ruthless suppression of the Great Revolt of 1857, there was also naturally much overlap between the two. Under the patronage of other Indian Muslim rulers, some...
Faiz, Faiz Ahmad. Poems by Faiz.Translated by Victor G. Kiernan. London: Allen and Unwin, 1971. Matthews, D. J.; Shackle, C.; and Husain, Shahrukh. UrduLiterature.London: Urdu Markaz, 1985. Matthews, D. J., trans. and ed. Iqbal: A Selection of the UrduVerse.London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993. Russell, Ralph, and Islam, Khurshidul....
Sep 29, 2017 · The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told comprises of twenty-five stories translated by Umar Memon, a writer and translator par excellence. The book opens with an introduction from him, where he traces the evolution of Urdu short stories.
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Jul 12, 2019 · A round-up of the first four Urdu short stories presented in translation, as part of the eight-part series on Urdu fiction by contemporary Indian writers.
5 days ago · Urdu language, member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European family of languages. It is mutually intelligible with Hindi but is distinguished by its heavy borrowing from Arabic and Persian as well as its use of the Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script.
Aug 20, 2016 · Abdus Samad, a retired professor of Political Science from Patna, has produced seven collections of short stories and eight novels that bear ample testimony that the ‘personal is the political’. Syed Muhammad Ashraf, an income tax commissioner, is a force to reckon with in the nai kahani tradition.
