| URDU
LITERATURE |
| =Annual
of
Urdu Studies,
an indispensable resource for serious students.
Current issues, edited
by Prof. M. U. Memon, including an archive: [site].
Issues
from 1981-1990, edited by Prof. C. M. Naim, online
through DSAL:
[site]
=Journal of South Asian Literature (formerly Mahfil) also contains a number of good articles: it's online through DSAL: [site] =The Urdu version of Project Gutenberg: heavily devoted to Iqbaliana, but with lots of other complete books too: [site] =*THE
DATELIST OF URDU LITERARY FIGURES*, an
ongoing project
created
by S. R. Faruqi, F. W. Pritchett, and A. Sean Pue. It
is now (as of
2003)
a database housed on Sean Pue's website, so he will be
the chief
maintainer
from now on. =Aaj (Karachi), an Urdu literary journal online: [site] =Abdul Haq, Qava'id-e
Urdu
(1914):
[site] =Abdul Qadir, The New School of Urdu
Literature
(1898) and Famous
Urdu Poets and
Writers (947): [on this site] =Anis, Mir Babr 'Ali:
his
most famous marsiyah, with study helps: [on
this site] =M. Asaduddin, "The Exiles Return: Qurratulain Hyder's Art of Fiction," Manushi 119: [site] =Azad, Muhammad Husain, Ab-e hayat (1880): available in translation (Pritchett and Faruqi) with hyperlinks to the original Urdu: [site] =Azad, Muhammad Husain, Darbar-e Akbari: [site] =Azeem, Anwer, "An
Unforgettable Teller
of Tales." Social Scientist 29, 334-35 (2001).
A tribute to
Manto,
originally composed in 1955: [site] =Baidar Bakht and
Kathleen
Grant Jaeger, An
Anthology of Modern
Urdu Poetry, vol. 1 (Delhi 1985),
translations with facing texts
in Urdu: [on this site] =Bailey, T. Grahame. A
History of
Urdu Literature (1932): [on
this site] =Chughtai, Ismat, "Chauthi ka jora" and related materials: [on this site] =Dawn (Pakistan), a weekly magazine, often has articles about Urdu literary topics: [site]. Its online archives are limited to a month or so; fortunately most of its past issues are available in a searchable archive maintained at the Univ. of Virginia: [site] =Davis, Dick, "On Not
Translating Hafez," The
New England
Review 35,1-2 (2004): [site];
very
relevant for Urdu ghazal too! =Dawood, Attiya. The
personal
website
of the Sindhi/Urdu poet, writer, and feminist: [site] =Dictionary of Islamic
Philosophical Terms
(M. Saeed Sheikh, 1970): [site] =Farooqi, Mehr Afshan. "The Secret of Letters: Chronograms in Urdu Literary Culture," Edebiyat 13,2 (2003), pp. 147-58; in pdf format: [on this site] =Faruqi,
Shamsur
Rahman.
This
site
provides
a
whole
page
of
links to many of his major articles in English. =Faruqi, Shamsur
Rahman-- an
informal FESTSCHRIFT
for him, edited by Satyanarayana Hegde, contains many
good articles. =Forbes, Duncan. A Dictionary, Hindustani
& English
(2nd ed., 1866): [site] =Forbes, Duncan. The
Adventures of Hatim Tai (1830): [site] =Fort William College: workshop materials, 2010: [on this site] =Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan: "A Desertful of Roses," an online study of his (published and unpublished) Urdu ghazals, by FWP: [on this site] =Hali, Altaf Husain, the Musaddas and "Justice for the Silent" and Majalis un-nisa and so on: [on this site] =Hook, Peter. Some experiments in the English ghazal. Unpublished; made available by the author here only, for classroom use and discussion: [site] =Husain, Iqbal, "Akbar Allahabadi and National Politics," Social Scientist 16, 180 (1988): [site] =Hyder, Qurratulain: she talks about her life in an interview with BBC Urdu: [site]; a tribute by Azra Raza, Aug. 2007: [site] =Hyder, Syed Akbar, "Recasting Karbala in the Genre of Urdu Marsiya," Sagar (spring 1995): [site] =Insha'allah Khan Insha: materials for the 2007 Urdu-Hindi workshop: [on this site] =Intizar Husain, Basti, in FWP's translation: [on this site]; and links to other sources on him: [on this site] =Iqbal, Sir Muhammad,
lots of
material:
[on
this
site] =Jadid Adab, an
Urdu literary
magazine: [site] =Jafri, Ali Sardar, "Hafiz Shirazi, 1312-1387/89." Social Scientist 28, 320-21 (2000): [site] =Kahf, Mohja, "Chaste Love to Explicit Sex: Three Types of Arabic Love Poetry," Muslim Wakeup, June 18, 2004: [site] =Kathwari, Rafiq: New translations of some of Iqbal's poems, online at nycbigcitylit.com: [site] =Kellogg, Rev. S. H., A Grammar of the Hindi Language (1938 ed.): those excellent comparative dialectical charts are [on this site] =Lal, Vinay, "The Courtesan and the Indian Novel," on his own "Manas" website: [site] =Lelyveld, David, "Zuban-e
Urdu-e
Mu'alla and the Idol of Linguistic Origins," Annual
of Urdu
Studies
9 (1994): [site] =Majaz, Asrar ul-Haq
(1911-2010), a tribute by Sohail Hashmi: [site] =Manto, Saadat Hasan "Toba Tek Singh": a translation and study site by FWP: [on this site] =Minault, Gail, "Delhi College and Urdu," Annual of Urdu Studies 14 (1999): [site] =Mir, Ali Husain and Raza, Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry (New Delhi: Roli Books, 2006): the book doesn't always identify the Urdu poetry passages that it presents. Here's the authors' own list of poetry passages and poets. =Mir, Ali Husain, "The Poetry of 'No': Sahir Ludhianvi's Progressive Experiment," in Outlook India, July 29, 2004: [site] =Mir, Raza, "Dream and Nightmare: Urdu Progressive Poetry's Flirtation with Modernity," in Ghadar 5,1 (Feb. 21, 2002): [site] =Mir, Mir Taqi, "A Garden of Kashmir," an online study of his Urdu ghazals by FWP: [on this site] =Mir Amman Dihlavi, Bagh o Bahar, or the Story of the Four Dervishes (1804), trans. by Duncan Forbes (1874): [on this site] =Murtaza, Riffat: The short-story writer's own site, where she presents texts of many of her stories and discusses them: [site] =Muse India 14
(July-Aug. 2007):
"Urdu Literature Today": [site] =Naim,
C. M.,
an online overview of his work: [on
this site] =Naim, C.
M., "Two Amazing
Achievements," about bibliographic access to Urdu
materials (Mar.
2009): [on
this site] =National
Council for
Promotion of Urdu Language, India, "A Historical
Perspective of Urdu": [site] =Nawab
Jiwan Yar Bahadur,
trans., My Life:
being the
autobiography of Nawab Server-ul-Mulk Bahadur
(London, n.d.): [site];
good
source
on
Delhi,
mid-1800's;
and
Hyderabad,
1870's-80's. =Nicholson, R. A., Studies in Islamic Poetry (1920): [site] ==PERSIAN LITERATURE: a page of materials for background study: [on this site] =Platts, John T., A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930's impression. Online through DSAL. The one truly indispensable dictionary for the English-speaking Urdu student. If Platts had given proper credit to the many learned munshis who worked with him, it would be perfect: [site] =Premchand, "The Pharaohs of Urdu," trans. by C. M. Naim, Annual of Urdu Studies 18 (2003): [site] =Premchand, "The Shroud," a translation and study site by FWP: [on this site] =Pritchett, Frances W., Nets of Awareness (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994): [site] =Pritchett, Frances W., The Romance Tradition in Urdu: Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamzah. Greatly expanded translation, available only online: [site] =FWP-- A variety of articles and translations, taken from published work, available at this site. And of course there's also the ongoing Ghalib commentary, "A DESERTFUL OF ROSES." =FWP and Khaliq Ahmad
Khaliq, Urdu
Meter: A Practical Handbook. Madison:
South Asian Studies,
University
of Wisconsin at Madison, Publication Series, 1987. The
revised ONLINE
EDITION
is now available here. =Pybus, Captain G. D.
A Text-Book of Urdu
Prosody and Rhetoric
(Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1924): [on this site] =Raza, Mir Ali, "The Poetry of 'No'" [about Sahir Ludhianvi], Outlook India, July 29, 2004: [site] =Raza, Mir, "Dream and Nightmare: Urdu Progressive Poetry's Flirtation with Modernity," Ghadar 5,1 (Feb. 21, 2002): [site]. Also in Outlook India, Nov. 26, 2004: [site] =Russell, Ralph, "The
Islam
of Urdu
Poetry," The Hindu, April 7, 2002: [site] =Russell, Ralph, "The
Development of the Modern Novel in Urdu," in The Novel in India: Its
Birth and Development, ed. by T. W. Clark
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970): [on
this site] =Rusva, Mirza Muhammad
Hadi, Umrao
Jan
Ada (1899), the whole first-edition text with a
serial
glossary,
and much more: [on
this
site] =Safdar Mirzapuri, Bazm-e khayal (1918): [site]; a collection of Urdu and Persian verses that have anecdotes associated with them. =Sauda, Mirza Rafi'-- some of his satiric masnavis, translated and annotated by Major Henry Court (1825), with Urdu texts: [on this site] =Schimmel, Annemarie.
Pain
and
Grace:
A
Study
of
Two
Mystical
Writers
of
Eighteenth-century
Muslim
India.
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. The 'Pain' refers to Mir
Dard. This book is
online through NetLibrary.
For
CU
access,
here's the
exact location. =Shackle, Christopher,
and
Rupert Snell, Hindi-Urdu
Since 1800:
A Common Reader (London: SOAS, 1990): [on
this
site] =Sharma, Sunil, "The
City of
Beauties in Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape," from Comparative Studies of
Asia, Africa, and
the Middle East 24:2 (2004): [on this site] =Suhrawardy, Shaista
Akhtar
Banu, A Critical
Survey of the
Development of the Urdu Novel and Short Story
(1945): [on
this site] =Words Without Borders,
September
2010: "Urdu Fiction in India," edited by Muhammad Umar
Memon: [site] =Bahadur Shah 'Zafar'-- a page of material about him: [site] =LITERARY JOURNALS and TEXT sites in Urdu: ="Istaara.com, an Electronic Urdu Literary Magazine"
=For people anywhere near New York City: there's the *Urdu/Hindi workshop* held at Columbia every spring |
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