Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Early Urdu Literary Culture and History
 

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001

 
With the author's full permission, I am making this important work available here. In order to preserve the page structure and diacritics, the chapters will be in PDF format. The book was originally put together on my computer, and was published as camera-ready copy, so this version comes from my own files. Any small differences in word spacing and other details between the printed version and the one available here are due to my changeover in the meantime from DOS Nota Bene to Windows Nota Bene.

The calligraphic design above says "bab-e avval," or "First Part." It was most generously created by Adil Mansuri of New Jersey as one of *a set of chapter dividers for the book*.

*Acknowledgments*
*A Note on Transliteration*
*Preface*
*Chapter One: History, Faith, Politics: Origin Myths of Urdu and Hindi*
*Chapter Two: Remaking History, Refashioning Culture*
*Chapter Three: Beginning, Then Going Away from Home*
*Chapter Four: The Birth of Literary Theory*
*Chapter Five: A True Beginning in the North*
*Chapter Six: A Phenomenon called Vali*
*Chapter Seven: The 'New' Literary Culture*
*Bibliography*
*Index*

This book is more or less an English version of the author's earlier Urdu work, Urdu ka ibtida'i zamanah: adabi tahzib o tarikh ke pahlu (Karachi: Aj Ki Kitaben, 1999). The two are not identical, however. The author was able to add some new material at various points in the English version.

 
 -- S. R. Faruqi index page -- FWP's main page --