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  2. Umrao Jaan Ada - Wikipedia

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    1899. Published in English. 1970. Dewey Decimal. 891.4393. Umrao Jaan Ada ( Urdu: اُمراؤ جان ادا) is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931), first published in 1899. [1] It is considered the first Urdu novel by many [2] and tells the story of a tawaif and poet by the same name from 19th century Lucknow, as recounted by her ...

  3. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu literature originated sometime around the 14th century in present-day North India among the sophisticated gentry of the courts. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu.

  4. Lihaaf - Wikipedia

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    Adab-i-Latif. Publication type. Literary journal. Publication date. 1942. " Lihaaf " ("The Quilt") is an Urdu short story written by Ismat Chughtai which was published in the Urdu literary journal Adab-i-Latif in 1942. In the coming decades, it was widely anthologised and faced an obscenity trial. [1] It is one of Chughtai's well known works.

  5. InPage - Wikipedia

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    InPage. InPage is a word processor and page layout software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian information technology company. It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and macOS. It was first developed in 1994 and is primarily used for creating ...

  6. Shehr-e-Zaat (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Shehr-e-Zaat (Urdu: شہرذات ; lit: City of Self) is a novella by Pakistani fiction writer Umera Ahmad published in 2002. A blog at the Express Tribune describes the story as a fictional story with an elements of spiritualism and philosophy.The story depicts the obsession of individuals with worldly life, forgetting their creator—a journey from self to

  7. Mirat-ul-Uroos - Wikipedia

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    Mirat-ul-Uroos. Mirat-ul-Uroos ( Urdu: مراۃ العروس, The bride's mirror) is an Urdu language novel written by Indian author Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (1830–1912) and published in 1869. [1] The novel contains themes promoting the cause of female education in Muslim and Indian society, and is credited for giving birth to an entire genre of ...

  8. Jo Chale To Jaan Se Guzar Gaye - Wikipedia

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    The story of Jo Chale To Jaan Se Guzar Gaye revolves around Zufishan who is from a middle-class background. She has been engaged to her cousin Azar and is strongly in love with him. All of a sudden Sayed Alim Shah a landlord saw her and fell in love with her. He forced Zufishan to marry him, but she refuses as she is engaged to her cousin.

  9. Zameen (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Zameen (novel) Zameen. (novel) Zameen ( Urdu: زمین, romanized : Zamīn, lit. 'land'), alternatively spelled Zamin, is an Urdu novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Khadija Mastoor. The novel was published posthumously by Idara-e-Farogh-e-Urdu in 1983. [2] Daisy Rockwell, PhD, translated it into English and released it in July ...