The Urdu Ghazal A Gift of India's Composite Culture |
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| Author:
| Narang, Gopi Chand
Deol, Surinder |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-012079-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2020 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
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The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. The book includes sample works of thematically related poets. The reader will especially appreciate extended coverage of pioneering innovators of the twentieth-century like Firaq Gorakhpuri and...
More DescriptionThe book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. The book includes sample works of thematically related poets. The reader will especially appreciate extended coverage of pioneering innovators of the twentieth-century like Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and postmodern poets like Gulzar and Javed Akhtar.