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My fellow traveller : a translation of Humsafar / Hameeda Akhtar Husain Raipuri ; translated from Urdu by Amina Azfar ; foreword by Mishfiq Khwaja ; introduction by Asif Farrukhi.
Van Pelt Library DS480.45 .H798 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hussain Raipuri, Hamida Akhtar.
- Standardized Title:
- Hamsafar. English
- Language:
- English
- Urdu
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistan movement.
- History.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- India--History--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Pakistan movement--History--Personal narratives.
- Hussain Raipuri, Hamida Akhtar.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 384 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- The author's first work, written at the age of 72, not only throws light on the character and unusual family history of her late husband, Akhtar Husain Raipuri, a well-known intellectual, but also provides luminous vignettes of prominent people, including her father, the Urdu novelist Zafar Omar, Gandhi, and Maulvi Abdul Haq, the "father of Urdu."
- ISBN:
- 0195471474
- OCLC:
- 70722746
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195471472
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