Angāre and the founding of the progressive writers' association

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 447-467

  Mahmud, Shabana ^a  

^a BRITISH LIBRARY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 6144267743     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x0001653x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Angāre has been reprinted with an extensive introduction by Shabana Mahmud, Angāre, ek jaiza (Sweden:Bokforlag Kitabiat, 1988), 134p.
2. Azīz Ahmed, Taraqqī pasand adab (Hyderabad [Decaccan], 1x945).
3. Ahmed 'Alī, 'The Progressive Writers Movement and Creative Writers in Urdu', in: Marxist Influences & South Asian Literature, ed. Carlo Coppolla (Michigan, 1974), p. 36.
4. I give the Urdu originals in Appendix I. I would like to acknowledge my thanks to Ahmed 1Ali for producing the copies of the Urdu newspaper cuttings, and to Ralph Russell for all the help he has given me in the preparation of this article.
5. Act XLV 1860. V/8/349. For the text of the notification of the ban see Appendix II. Proscription notice sent to India Office (now likewise in the OIOC, BL) lists it as item 17 in a list of 21 publications proscribed during the quarter ending March 31, 1933. Unpublished copyright documents reproduced in this publication appear by permission of the controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
6. Quoted by Coppola, Carlo, 'The Angare group: the infants terribles of Urdu literature,' in Annual of Urdu Studies 1 (1981), p. 61.
7. For a further description of the contents of Angāre see the introduction in the reprint cited above; this introduction has also been published separately in Funūn 28 (September-October 1989). See also Ralph Russell, The Pursuit of Urdu Literature: A Select history (London: Zed Books, 1992), pp. 205-8.
8. Some of them had already been published elsewhere; for instance, Ahmed 'Alī's story Mahāvaton kī ek rāt had earlier appeared in the Lahore journal Humāyun in January 1932. Ahmed 'Alī's other story in the collection is Bādal nahin āte.
9. A full translation of this is included in Ralph Russell (tr. & ed.), Hidden in the Lute: An Anthology of Urdu Literature in English Translation (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995).
10. A copy is held in the Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark Urdu B 2901. Other stories in the collection include Shaikh Makhmūr, Yehī merā vatan hai (This is my country) and Sansarik prem aur desh prem (Universal love and love of country).
11. Ahmed 'Alī, 'The Progressive Writers Movement', p. 40.
12. Ahmed 'Alī, 'The Progressive Writers Movement in its Historical Perspective', in: Journal of South Asian Literature 8, no. 4 (1977-78), pp. 91-7.
13. Sajjād Zahīr, Reminiscences, in: Indian Literature 11, (Bombay 1952), p. 51.