Urdu Literary Culture

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3 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World E d i t e d b y H a m i d D a b a s h i Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Hamid chaired the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures from 2000 to 2005 and was a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His most recent books include Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire ; Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker ; Iran: A People Interrupted ; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. Published by Palgrave Macmillan: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East: The Chaotic Imagination By Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A isha Taymur By Mervat F. Hatem Islam in the Eastern African Novel By Emad Mirmotahari Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo By Mara Naaman Poetics and Politics of Iran s National Epic, the Shāhnāmeh By Mahmoud Omidsalar Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth By Farhang Erfani Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rek_h_tī Poetry, By Ruth Vanita Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon: New Readings of Shiʿr al-ʿāmmiyya By Noha M. Radwan Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe By Meyda Yeğenoğlu Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics Edited by Mehanz M. Afridi and David M. Buyze Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories By Ihab Saloul Urdu Literary Culture: Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari By Mehr Afshan Farooqi

4 Urdu Literary Culture Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari Me hr Af shan Fa r ooqi

5 URDU LITERARY CULTURE Copyright Mehr Afshan Farooqi, All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Farooqi, Mehr Afshan. Urdu literary culture : vernacular modernity in the writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari / Mehr Afshan Farooqi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN (alk. paper) 1. Askari, Muhammad Hasan, Criticism and interpretation. 2. Urdu literature History and criticism. I. Title. PK2200.A697Z dc A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July Printed in the United States of America.

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8 Contents Not e f r o m t h e E d i t o r Not e on Tr a n sl i t e r a t i on P r e fa c e I nt ro duc t ion 1 1 Quot Rami Tot Arbores: As Many Branches as Many Trees The University of Allahabad and Beyond 15 2 Askari and Firaq: Personal Relations in Life and Letters 3 Fiction, Theory of Fiction, and the Critical View 4 Jhalkiyan : World Literature, Partition, and Rupture 5 The Illusion of Form and the Power of Tradition 6 Revisiting the Indo-Muslim Cultural Consciousness: Askari and Iqbal 7 Resuming the Past: Bright Morning and Foggy Night ix xi xiii Notes Works Cited 273 Index 2 81

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