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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Urdu |
| Language Notes: | In English with some Urdu text, translated from the Urdu. |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| 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 |