UMRA'O JAN
"ADA" (1899)
by Mirza Muhammad Hadi "Rusva"
(1857-1931)
**THE WHOLE URDU
NOVEL AND A SERIAL GLOSSARY, ALL ONLINE**
*Introduction by
FWP*
*proof
that it's a novel, not an autobiography*
The
novel begins with a mushairah:
*1a* ~~ The narrator,
"Mirza Rusva," meets with his friends
*1b* ~~ Umrao Jan joins
the gathering
*2a* ~~ Arrangements for
the mushairah
*2b* ~~ Umrao Jan
recites a ghazal
*2c* ~~ The Khan Sahib's
and the Navab Sahib's turns
*2d* ~~ Pandit-ji's
recitation
*2e* ~~ Shaikh Sahib's
ghazal, and Mirza Sahib's excuses
*2f* ~~ Rusva recites
his own ghazal
*2g* ~~ Rusva reads
Mirza Sahib's ghazal
*2h* ~~ A visiting poet
satirizes mushairah behavior:
verses *1-15*
-- *16-30*
-- *31-46*
*2j* ~~ Agha Sahib's
long and controversial ghazal:
verses *1-8*
-- *9-15* --
*16-17*
*3a* ~~ After the
mushairah
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*pre-1857 drawings of nautch
girls* ~~ *post-1857 drawings of nautch
girls*
*early photographs of nautch
girls*
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*Philip
Lutgendorf
on
the 1981 film*
*a transcript of the 1981
film, made by the staff of the Berkeley
Urdu Language Program in Pakistan*;
and their *glossary*
*a Devanagari text and
serial glossary for the 1981 film*
Ghazals
by *Shahryar*
from the 1981 film:
*dil chiz kya
hai* ~~ *justaju
jis ki* ~~ *in ankhon ki
masti* ~~ *zindagi
jab bhi* ~~ *yih kya jagah
hai* ~~ *jab
bhi milti hai*
*about the 2006 film*
*a review: Ziya us-Salam in The
Hindu, Nov. 5, 2006*
*the filmmaker responds in
Indiatimes*
*a review: Mamun
M. Adil in Dawn, Nov. 26, 2006*
*a Pakistani television
series, 2003*
*a song from the 1972
Pakistani film (Noor Jehan)*
*and another (Runa Laila)*
*and one more*
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== Abid Khan and
Akshay Chavan, "Umrao Jan Ada: the first
modern Indian novel," *LiveHistoryIndia (Mar.
2020)*
== Soumya Rao, "Tawaifs: The unsung heroes
of India's freedom struggle," *Scroll.in (May 2019)*
== Alison Safadi, "The 'Fallen' Woman in
Two Colonial Novels: Umra'o Jan Ada
and Bazaar-e Husn / Sevasadan,"
*Annual of Urdu Studies
24 (2009)*
== Joachim K. Bautze, "Umrao Jan
Ada: her carte-de-visite" (2009),
*on this site*
== Kamran
Asdar Ali, "Courtesans in the Living Room," *Annual
of
Urdu Studies 20 (2005)*
== M. Asaduddin, "First Urdu Novel:
Claims and Disclaimers," *Annual of Urdu Studies 16
(2001)*
== Daniela Bredi, "Fallen Women:
A Comparison of Rusva and Manto," *Annual of Urdu Studies
16 (2001)*
== Saira Irshad Khan, "Umrao Jan
Revisited", *Newsline, July 2001*
== C. M. Naim, "The Earliest
Extant Review of Umra'o Jan," *Annual of Urdu Studies 15
(2000)*
== David Matthews, trans., Umrao
Jan Ada, New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 1996
(and later reprints)
== Mukul Kesavan, "Urdu, Awadh, and
the Tawaif: the Islamicate roots of Hindi
cinema" (1994): *on this site*
== Veena Talwar Oldenburg,"Lifestyle
as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of
Lucknow" (1990): *on this site*
== Gail Minault, "Begamati Zuban: Women's
Language and Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Delhi" (1984): *on this site*
== Manto, Sa'adat Hasan, "Ismat Chughtai," *Annual
of Urdu Studies 16 (2001)*
== Munibur Rahman, "The Mushairah,"
*Annual of Urdu Studies 3
(1983)*
*Ralph Russell, "The Development of the Modern
Novel in Urdu" (1970): *on
this site*
== Khushwant Singh and M. A.
Hussaini, trans., Umrao Jan Ada (The
Courtesan of Lucknow), New Delhi: Orient
Longmans (UNESCO), 1961, and many later
reprints: *Chapter 1*
== Shaista Akhtar
Bano Suhrawardy, from A Critical
Survey of the Development of the Urdu Novel
and Short Story (London: Longmans, 1945):
*on this site*
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