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A History of Urdu Literature
by T. Grahame Bailey
London, 1932
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*Introduction
[1]*
PREFACE (vii) -- INTRODUCTION [1] -- Urdu Metre [2] -- The Principal
Forms of Urdu Poetry [2] -- The Most Important Urdu Poets [4]
*1 = The History
of Urdu [5]*
How Urdu Began [5] -- Early History of Urdu [8] -- The Name 'Urdu'
[10] -- The Place of Urdu among Languages [12]
*2 = The
Beginnings of Urdu
Literature [14]*
A. The 'Religious Period,' A.D. 1350-1590 (Nos. 1-19)
[15] -- B.
The First Literary Period of Urdu in the Deccan, A.D. 1590-1730 [19] --
The Qutb Shahi Poets (Nos. 20-42) [20] -- The 'Adil Shahi Poets (Nos.
43-55)
[27] -- Literature under the Mugals (Nos. 56-75) [30] -- Vali's Younger
Contemporaries (Nos. 76-92) [34]
*3 = The
First Century
of Urdu Poetry in Delhi (A.D. 1730-1830) [38]*
A. The Age of Hatim (Nos. 93-101) [42] -- B. The
Age
of the 'Four Pillars of Urdu,' Maz'har, Sauda, Mir, and Dard (Nos.
102-113)
[46] -- C. The Age of Mus'hafi, Insha, and Nazir (Nos. 114-128)
[53]
*4 = Urdu
Poetry in Lucknow
in the Nineteenth Century (Nos. 129-160) [60]*
*5 = The Second
Delhi Period
and the Four Poets of Rampur [70]*
A. The Second Delhi Period (Nos. 161-177) [70] -- B.
The Four Poets at the Rampur Court (Nos. 178-181) [75]
*6 = Urdu Prose
[78]*
A. Early Prose Writers (Nos. 182-185) [78] -- B.
The
Fort William Translators (Nos. 186-198) [80] -- C. Urdu Prose
Writers
of the Nineteenth Century (Nos. 199-230) [83]
*7 = The New Age
(Nos. 232-240)
[94]*
*8 = Conclusion
and Bibliography
[100]*
*Index of
Persons (and Transliteration)
[108]*
*Index of Works
(and Topics)
[115]*
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