The Light: A History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent

By Amina Azfar and the late Sajjad Zaheer

Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) was one of the main architects of the Progressive Movement in Literature in pre-Partition India. Light, his account of this movement, which transformed Urdu literature, contains many fascinating portraits of the leading writers of the time--Tagore, Premchand, and Faiz.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195471555
• ISBN13: 9780195471557
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"