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The light : a history of the movement for progressive literature in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent / Sajjad Zaheer ; translated from Urdu by Amina Azfar ; introduction by Ahmad Ali Khan ; introduction to the Urdu edition by Sibte Hasan.
Van Pelt Library PK5401 .Z2413 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sajjād Z̤ahīr, 1905-1973.
- Standardized Title:
- Raushnāʼī. English
- Language:
- English
- Urdu
- Subjects (All):
- All-India Progressive Writers Association--History.
- All-India Progressive Writers Association.
- Indic literature--Societies, etc--History--20th century.
- Indic literature.
- Literature--India--Societies, etc--History--20th century.
- Literature.
- History.
- India--Intellectual life--20th century.
- India.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 301 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Some in Urdu.
- Summary:
- Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) was one of the main architects of the Progressive Movement in Literature in pre-Partition India. Light, his account of this movement, which transformed Urdu literature, contains many fascinating portraits of the leading writers of the time--Tagore, Premchand, and Faiz.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195471557
- 0195471555
- OCLC:
- 77271790
- Online:
- Publisher description
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