The Decline of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

Jalil, Rakhshanda

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“…Rakhshanda Jalil, while discussing the social changes and Urdu literature from the 1850s to the 1920s, explains the characteristics of Shehr Ashob poetry as follows: “much of this genre of poetry was melodramatic, self-pitying and exaggerated with a great deal of rhetoric and play upon words in the best tradition of elegiac poetry such as marsiya, noha and soz ”. She explains how in the genre of poetry, the poets write as a witness to their contemporary socio-political changes and how, through their poetry, they paint “graphic and word pictures” (2014: 4) of their first hand experiences. Shehr Ashob has social and historical importance as it offers personal narratives and records the reactions of various poets to the decline of Mughal sovereignty in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.…”

Section: Memories Mourning and Lamentation For The Citymentioning

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The city and the beloved witness: Mapping cityscapes of Delhi in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry

Qadeer

2019

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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The reputation of Agha Shahid Ali, the Kashmiri-American poet, as a poet of exile is well established. Much of his poetry deals with themes of loss, lamentation, and longing where he speaks in a powerful voice about the plight of people of Kashmir. Shahid’s personal memories are not only of Kashmir but also of Delhi, the city where he was born, studied, taught, and published his first collection of poems. In his poems about Delhi he revisits both old Delhi and New Delhi: he roams around the city, listens to Qawwali at Saint Nizamuddin’s mausoleum, meets Muslim butchers, remembers his parents, remembers Shahjahan, and recites Bahadur Shah Zafar’s poem. This article investigates the representations and recollections of Delhi in Agha Shahid Ali’s poems and explores the city’s centrality in understanding socio-cultural history, the importance of particular individuals, and spatial specificity. It studies how the poet explores the city in relation to its languages, histories (the Rebellion of 1857, Partition, post-Partition), and cultures (Mughal and modern). I further investigate how Ali’s literary cartography of Delhi is influenced both by indigenous genres such as Shehr Ashob and the modern English poetic tradition, and how certain Indo-Islamic tropes become central to the poet’s literary memorialization of India’s capital city.

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Section: Memories Mourning and Lamentation For The Citymentioning

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The city and the beloved witness: Mapping cityscapes of Delhi in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry

Qadeer

2019

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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“…Rakshanda Jalil argues that the particular feature of the Angarey stories was "to give voice to the unsung people" [4] . According to Vibha S. Chauhan-"they interpreted various spheres of life in a dynamic through their artistic production [5] . Thus, these writers kept at distance themselves from the romantic idealism; rather they tried to typify themselves as the spokesperson of the peasantry, workers and the subaltern people.…”

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The emergence of PWA and resurgence of nationalism

Arya,

Khan

2024

Int. J. Res. Engl.

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The publication of 'Angarey' in 1932 marked the beginning of upsurge of the 'Progressive Writers' Association'. It is a collection of nine stories and a one-act play written by Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Mahmuduzzafar and Rashid Jahan. The stories and the play proved to be a critical punch on the orthodoxy of muslim community. Although 'Angarey' was banned after four months of its publication and fatwa was raised against these four contributors of the book but it had a deep impact upon the contemporary writers of the age which led to the formation of PWA. PWA was a Progressive Literary Movement during Pre-Partition in British India. The members of the movement were left-oriented and advocated their writing against social injustice, orthodoxy and backwardness in the society. The paper analyses the formation of PWA and its influence on Indian literary scene.

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The Decline of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

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The city and the beloved witness: Mapping cityscapes of Delhi in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry

The city and the beloved witness: Mapping cityscapes of Delhi in Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry

The emergence of PWA and resurgence of nationalism

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