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‘Angareywali’ Rashid Jahan: Urdu’s Angry Young Woman
Rashid Jahan ‘declared war’ on conservative Muslim society through an explosive anthology she co-authored, titled Angarey. It may have earned her death threats but Rashid became an inspiration for generations of women writers to come.
History Daily
Umrao Jaan Ada: The First Modern Indian Novel
The tragic tale of a Lucknow courtesan has been immortalised by the Hindi cinema, but was Umrao Jaan fact or fiction? Also, was its author a master of Urdu prose or just a cheap novelist? Here’s the story behind the first modern Indian novel...
Heritage Matters
Creating a Digital Repository | Heritage Matters
Our great libraries have many rare books & manuscripts but many of them are inaccessible & fragile. On Heritage Matters, we look at how digital platform Rekhta is helping save rare Urdu classics
Cover Story
Fort William College & Its Ironic Legacy
Fort William College was meant to train young British lads for the Company but it ended up as a great centre of Indian languages. Find out how a college set up by the East India Company became the ‘birthplace of modern Hindi’ and went on to even influence the Bengal Renaissance