
Urdu Studies Vol 4, Issue 1, 2024
اردواسٹڈیز جلد 4، شمارہ 1، 2024
Included in the List of UGC’s Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (UGC-CARE)
Chief Editor
Dr. Arshad Masood Hashmi
Professor, Department of Urdu, Jai Prakash University, Chapra (India)
Guest Editor (English Section)
Dr. Fatima Rizvi
Professor, Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (India)

Cover Page
Our Contributors
Table of Contents
English Section (211 pages) | |||
Editorial Read / Download | Fatima Rizvi | 1-5 | |
Research Papers | |||
1 | The Novelist as Critic: The Disparaging Versions of Urdu Poets in Early Urdu Novels Read / Download | Mohammed Afzal | 6-17 |
2 | Sufism East and West in Qudratullāh Shahāb’s Shahābnāma Read / Download | Marcia Hermansen | 18-31 |
3 | Constraints and Priorities of Urdu Journalism in Post-Colonial Bengal: A Study of the Urdu Daily, Äzād Hind Read / Download | Ishtiaq Hussain | 32-42 |
4 | From Calcutta Madrasaḥ to ‘Āliah University: A Journey Read / Download | Arifur Rahaman Mollah | 43-55 |
5 | Histories and Historiography: Problem of National History in Äg kā Daryā Read / Download | Mohammad Irfan | 56-71 |
6 | “Main bhī muṉh meṉ zubān rakhti hūṉ”: Feminist Identity, Confession, Consciousness Raising, and Urdu Autobiography: A Study of Dagar Se Haṭ Kar (1996) by Saeeda Bano (1920-2001) Read / Download | Shuby Abidi | 72-83 |
7 | The Poetics and Politics of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Poetry Read / Download | Sohini Saha | 84-97 |
8 | Rashid Jahan: An Iconoclast Read/ Download | Sumbul Nasim | 98-109 |
9 | The Flawless Commitment of a Flawed Progressive: Krishan Chandar and his Art of Storytelling Read / Download | Dhurjjati Sarma | 110-122 |
10 | Ismat Chughtai, Women and Partition: Challenging Fanaticism Read / Download | Huma Yaqub | 123-133 |
11 | Precarious Homes in Saadat Hassan Manto’s “Toba Tek Singh”: Insanity, Illness and Displacement Read / Download | Takbeer Salati & Huzaifa Pandit | 134-144 |
12 | Dehumanization and Trauma: A Study of Sajjad Zaheer’s “Dulari” and Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s “Naked Voices” Read / Download | Adarsh Narayan Parbat | 145-154 |
13 | Gendered-Trajectories, Dissentient-Dreams: Re-reading “Lihāf” and Kāġhaẓī hai Pairahan in the Postcolonial Context Read / Download | Mohd. Aleem Qureshi | 155-168 |
14 | Exploring the Depths of the Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Study of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Poem Dasht-e tanhā.ī” Read / Download | Shabeer Ahmad Shah & Chetana Pokhriyal | 169-178 |
Translations | |||
15 | “The Poet and the Rain” (“Shā’ir aur Barsāt” by Nazīr Aḥmad Dahqānī) Read / Download | Maria Casadei | 179-185 |
16 | “Film and Culture” (“Film aur Saqāfat” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz) Read / Download | Mubashir Karim | 186-192 |
17 | Six Ghazals from wo jo sha‘irī kā sabab huā (The Indifferent Muse) by Kaleem “Aajiz” Read / Download | Mohammad Saquib | 193-200 |
18 | “The Saravasti Bath” (“Sarasvatī Asnān” by Ghazanfar) Read / Download | Zainab Fatma | 201-211 |
Urdu Section (109 pages) | |||
(Editorial) اداریہ Read / Download | Arshad Masood Hashmi ارشد مسعود ہاشمی | 1-7 | |
19 | Umrāo Jān Adā meṉ faḥḥāshī kī tajlīl امراؤ جان ادا میں فحاشی کی تجلیل Read / Download | Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś اگنیئشکا کچکیوچ فراش | 8-23 |
20 | Nawāb Ashraf ‘Alī Khān Fughāṉ نواب اشرف علی خاں فغاں Read / Download | Syed Naqi Ahmad Irshad سید نقی احمد ارشاد | 24-57 |
21 | Safarnāma-e Shīrāz سفرنامۂ شیراز Read / Download | Syed Jalaluddin Haider سید جلال الدین حیدر | 58-109 |
Published on August 11, 2024