The Light: The History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Sub Continent
the late Sajjad Zaheer
350 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0195471555
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Language: English
Publish: June 15, 2006
Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) was one of the main architects of the Progressive Movement in Literature in pre-Partition India. Light , his account of this movement, which transformed Urdu literature, contains many fascinating portraits of the leading writers of the time–Tagore, Premchand, and
Faiz.