The Urdu ghazal : a gift of India's composite culture /

The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. T...

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Main Author: Narang, Gopi Chand, 1931-2022 (Author)
Other Authors: Deol, Surinder (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Urdu
Language Notes:In English with some Urdu text, translated from the Urdu.
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. The book includes sample works of thematically related poets. The reader will especially appreciate extended coverage of pioneering innovators of the twentieth-century like Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and postmodern poets like Gulzar and Javed Akhtar.
Item Description:"The first five chapters of the book were first published in 2013 in Urdu by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language as Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehn-o Tahzib"--Page iv
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190990053
0190990058
9780190990046
019099004X