A HISTORY. OF U.

RDU
LITERATURE

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RAM BABU S.AKSENA

M.A., LL.D.1 U. P. C.~·• F. R. S. A. (LONDON)
. M. R. A. S., M. A. S. D.
MEMBER, HINDUSTAN! ACADEMY, U.P.

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SIR TEJ BAHADUR SAPRU

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A History of Urdu Literature.
Lahore: Sang-e-Me_el Publications, 1996.
vi, 432p. ·
1. Urdu Literature - History and
Criticism. I. Title.

1996.

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 CONTENTS
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Preface i-ii
Foreword ... iii-iv
CHAPTERI .
The Language and its Origin ·1
CHAPTER II
A General Survey of Ur9u.Literature .• .. 11
CHAPTER III
G~neral Characteristics of Urdu Pocny. 26
CHAPTER IV
The Deccan School of Early Urdu Poetry 35
CHAPTERV
The Delhi School of Urdu.Poets: Part I, The age of
Arzu and Hatirn . . 49
CHAPTER VI
The Delhi School of Urdu Poets: Part II, The age of
Mir and Souda 59
CHAPTER VII
The Delhi School of~rdu Poets : Part III, The age of
Insha and Mushaffi · 89
CHAPTER VIII
The Lucknow School of Urdu Poets: The age ofNasikh
and Atish 110
CHAPTER IX
The Court ofLucknow and its Urdu Poets: The age of
Wajid Ali Shah Akhtar ... 129
CHAPTERX
Elegy and Elegy Writers ... 137
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CHAPTERXI
'The stragglers-Nazir Akbarabadi
and Nasir Dehlvi . 155
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CHAPTER XII .
Courts of Delhi and its Poets : Part IV, The age of Ghalib
andZouq 164
CHAPTER XIII
The Court of Rampur and Hyderabad : The age of Amfr
and Dagh . .. . 190
CHAPTER XIV
The New Movement in Urdu Poetry : The age of Azad
and Hali 227
CHAPTER XV
Urdu Prose : Its Birth and Growth : Part l, Fort
William College at Calcutta · 214

CHAPTER XVI
Urdu Prose : Part II, The age of Ghalib and Sir Syed
Ahmad 284
CHAPTER XVil
Urdu Prose: Part III, The rise of Ur~u. Nov·el-The
age of Sarshar and Sharar .. 351
. CHAPTER XVIII
Urdu Drama . 382
CHAPTERXIX
Progress and Achievement of the Urdu Literature. 406
Index

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