The Light The History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Sub Continent

by Zaheer, Sajjad; Azfar, Amina

• ISBN13: 9780195471557
• ISBN10: 0195471555
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

Table of Contents

Securing the directions of the progressive movement	p. 1
The birth of the movement	p. 12
The intellectual and cultural background of the movement	p. 27
First All India Conference of the Progressive Movement, 1936	p. 48
Basic issues facing the movement	p. 75
Objectives of the progressive movement	p. 96
Forging ahead	p. 110
Weaknesses and aspirations	p. 127
The second All India Conference of the Progressive Movement	p. 140
Progressive writing and leading progressive writers	p. 155
The third All India Conference, 1942	p. 180
The fourth All India Conference, 1943	p. 190
The progressive movement comes into its own	p. 207
Dialectics, dialogues, and observations	p. 229
Hyderabad, and the Hyderabad conferences	p. 245
The progressive stance on the Urdu-Hindi row	p. 269
Sajjad Zaheer : a biographical outline
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