Hidden in the lute : an anthology of two centuries of Urdu literature /
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| Sprog: | English Urdu |
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Manchester :
Carcanet,
1995.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Stories and Sketches. Prem Chand: A Wife's Complaint. Ismat Chughtai: Tiny's Granny. Rashid Jahan: Behind the Veil. Krishan Chander: Kalu Bhangi. Saadat Hasan Mantu: The Black Shalwar. Shaukat Thanavi: Love and Prudence. Ismat Chughtai: Hellbound
- Popular Literature. Popular anecdotes. Stories of Akbar and Birbal. Stories of Mullah Dopiaza. Stories of Shaikh Chilli. Stories of prophets and great men. The Creation of Adam, the Fall of Iblis, and the loss of Paradise. Sikandar, Khizar, and the Water of Life. Sikandar in India. Khwaja Hasan Nizami: Guests are Pests
- Love Poetry. The ghazals of Mir and Ghalib. Love in Muslim society. Mystic love. Other themes. Images and Allusions. Listening to ghazals. Eleven ghazals of Ghalib. A living tradition
- The Challenge of the 'New Light'. The New Light and the Old. The Satirical Verse of Akbar Ilahabadi
- Poets and the Poetic Tradition. Muhammad Husain Azad: Nasikh: the portrait of a poet. Abdul Halim Sharar: The King and the Singer.
- Farhatullah Beg: A memorable Delhi mushaira. Altaf Husain Hali: A memoir of Ghalib. Ghalib: Letters
- The Novel. Rusva: Umrao Jan Ada.