The Urdu ghazal : a gift of India's composite culture / Gopi Chand Narang ; translated by Surinder Deol.
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 |
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Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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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. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Urdu. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190990053 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190120795.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020) |