Urdu Studies Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2026

Qiṣṣa-e Aurat Dalla

by
Anonymous
Introduced & translated by
Medhavi Gupta
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23631207

The translation presented here is of a text belonging to the qiṣṣa genre.

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Mir, Farina. “Genre and Devotion in Punjabi Popular Narratives: Rethinking Cultural and Religious Syncretism.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 48, no. 3, 2006, pp. 727–58. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3879442. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
Pritchett, Frances W. Marvelous Encounters: Folk Romance in Urdu and Hindi. New Delhi: Manohar Publications; and Riverdale, MD: The Riverdale Company, 1985. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/marv_qissa/index.html
Rekhta 2026. https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/qissa-e-aurat-dalla-ebooks
van Leeuwen, Richard. Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800. Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill, 2017.
Vatuk, Ved Prakash, and Sylvia Vatuk. “The Lustful Stepmother in the Folklore of Northwestern India.” Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 11, no. 1/2, 1975, pp. 19–43. JSTOR, http://www. jstor.org/stable/40861144. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

Acknowledgements: First Publication in Indian Literature No. 352 (March–
April 2026), Pp. 122–126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27467482

Medhavi Gupta is a doctoral candidate of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is passionate about research and writing and is an aspiring academic. Starting off as a creative writer but then entering the world of research and academic writing, she aims to bridge the gap between the two by undertaking the task of “intellectual translation” – making academic discourse more accessible to non-academics through public writing. Her published writings can be found here: https://linktr.ee/Medhavi_Gupta
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0164-9969