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India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry: Awakening

India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry: Awakening

Narang, Gopi Chand
Deol, Surinder

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032248181
ISBN13: 9781032248189
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India's freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope.

Urdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries in speeches and writings as slogans for freedom and a call to action. Poets such as Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Sahir, Makhdoom, Kaifi Azmi, Majaz, Majrooh, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote highly patriotic poetry which was used not only to inspire and help mobilize people but also to offer criticism of existing socio-cultural practices in India and promote reform and equality. This work - a creative and selective translation of the book Hindustan Ki Tahriik-e Aazadi aur Urdu Shaa'yiri by Professor Gopi Chand Narang - includes English translations of poems from rare historical manuscripts as well as banned and witnessed poetry confiscated by the British. It looks at key events in India's struggle for freedom through the prism of literature, language, poetry, and culture while also delving into the lives of poets who became the voice of their generation.

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