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== *Introductory materials* ==
== *One: Over Chinese Food: The Progressive Writers' Association* ==
== *Two: Urdu Poetry and the Progressive Aesthetic* ==
== *Three: Saare Jahaan se Achcha* ==
== *Four: From Home to the World: The Internationalist Ethos* ==
== *Five: Dream and Nightmare: The Flirtation with Modernity* ==
== *Six: Progressive Poetry and Film Lyrics* ==
== *Seven: Woh Yaar hai jo Khushboo ki taraah, jis ki zuban Urdu ki taraah* ==
== *Eight: An Exemplary Progressive: The Aesthetic Experiment of Sahir Ludhianvi* ==
== *Nine: Javed Akhtar's Quiver of Poetic Arrows: A Legacy Survives* ==
== *Ten: New Standard Bearers of Progressive Urdu Poetry: The Feminist Poets* ==
== *Eleven: A Requiem ... and a Celebration* ==
== *Endnotes* ==
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== *Some notes on the poetry texts* ==


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