Gopi Chand Narang

India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Awakening
Übersetzer: Deol, Surinder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India's freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervour of revolution, protest, and hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000827835
• Artikelnr.: 66773476

Autorenporträt

Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) won awe-inspiring recognition all around the world for his outstanding contribution to literature. He authored numerous pathbreaking scholarly books, and he was the Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellow of the IGNCA (2002-2004) and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow for Residency at Bellagio Study Centre, Italy (1997). He was also Professor Emeritus at University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.

Surinder Deol is the author of SAHIR: A Literary Portrait, published in 2019. His translations of books on poets such as Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir, and the Urdu Ghazal have received critical acclaim. He has also published a poetical biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He lives in Potomac, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART I: Prison and the Hanging Post 1. The Patriotic
Tradition: From Amir Khusrau to 1857 2. The 1857 Uprising and the Urdu
Poetry 3. Uneasy Calm Before the Storm 1857-1914 4. The First World War and
Its Aftermath 5. The Progressive and Nationalist Poetry 6. The Banned and
Witness Poetry PART II: Leading Poets of the Freedom Struggle 7. Durga
Sahai Suroor Jahanabadi 8. Josh Malihabadi 9. Tilok Chand Mehroom 10. Firaq
Gorakhpuri Bibliography Index

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Preface PART I: Prison and the Hanging Post 1. The Patriotic Tradition: From Amir Khusrau to 1857 2. The 1857 Uprising and the Urdu Poetry 3. Uneasy Calm Before the Storm 1857-1914 4. The First World War and Its Aftermath 5. The Progressive and Nationalist Poetry 6. The Banned and Witness Poetry PART II: Leading Poets of the Freedom Struggle 7. Durga Sahai Suroor Jahanabadi 8. Josh Malihabadi 9. Tilok Chand Mehroom 10. Firaq Gorakhpuri Bibliography Index