(This is a brief history of Urdu literature published in India.The last paragraph
of this article is about Urdu poetry containing the names of important Urdu
poets including Tanwir Phool. The news about international literary award
published in fortnightly "State Bank News" is available just after this article.)
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A brief history of Urdu literature :
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Urdu literature
Urdu literature is comprised with plenty of fictions, nonfictions,
prose and poetries compose by a number of accomplished authors and
poets. Even though Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, it
relishes satisfying celebrity in India. The most former literary works
in Urdu were believed to be composed in the 11th -12th century. Amir
Khusro, who lived in the 13th century, moulded the development of Urdu
language as well as Urdu literature to an extraordinary extent. He is
considered to be the founding father of Urdu poetry. Literature works in
Urdu included more poesies than the ordinary writing, prose such as
‘Dastaan’ which is the long epical narration generally scripted in
Persian or Arabic language. This narration or story may be connected
with wild beasts or occurrences in an elaborated way.
Abdul Kalam
Azad, an Indian national leader was also a philosophic Urdu writer. His
ardent penning has helped to succeed a formal awareness among the
people, during the fight for Indian independence. His famous works in
literature are ‘Tarjuman-ul-Quran’ and ‘Ghubar-e-Khatir’. Ali Sardar
Jafri of Uttar Pradesh, Mirza Mohammad Haji Ruswa and Premchand of 20th
century were other fecund writers of Urdu literature. Premchand has
penned twelve fictions and three hundred short narratives in Urdu and
Hindi. Some of his acknowledged literary works are ‘Karmbhoom’, ‘Gaban’,
and ‘Premaashram’.
Bulhe Shah as well as Waris Shah has indited
splendid literary works in the 18th century. Stories say that, even
after the partition of India and Pakistan had taken place, the pongos on
either side of the boundary stood heeding the Waris Shah’s epos ‘Heer
Ranjha’. Qurratulain Hyder was the taste-maker of excogitation writings
in Urdu. She got Jnanapith Award for the novel ‘Aakhir-e-Shab ke
Hamsafaf’. The novel ‘Aag ka Darya’ is her most outstanding piece of
work in Urdu, for which she is well known.
Although the auditory
sensation of Urdu has some relation with Hindi, there are some
distinguishing substantive differences between the two languages. Hindi
is usually written in Devanagari script, where as Urdu is generally
written in Arabic script. Some words of Urdu are also taken from
Turkish. As a result of combination of many languages, Urdu has
ginormous set of purposeful and substantive words. The finesse and
quality of Urdu literature is really appreciable. Urdu literature was
comprised of mystic spiritual poems. Due to the spiritual leeway of the
princedoms’ sawyers, Urdu literature adopted Hindu and Muslim motifs.
Poetries
in Urdu attained its glorification at the 19th century when some of the
excellent poetries were transferred to Ghazals. The evolutionary stage
of Urdu poetry was during the 16th and 17th centuries. Muhammad Quli
Qutub Shah, the poet of 16th century indited poetries mainly in Persian
and Hindavi. Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan was a famous Urdu poet of the
17th century. Some of the Urdu poets of the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries were Khan Arzu, Mir Taqi Mir who was on among the high grading
Urdu poets, Firaq Gorakhpur, Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Bahadur Shah II, Faiz
Ahmed Faiz, Dagh Dehivi, Muhammed Iqbal, Tanwir Phool, Ahmad Faraz and
Hafeez Jalandhari.
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