1996/05/01 by Shabana Mahmud · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Medicine · #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East #South Asian Studies and Diaspora #Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics #Urdu #Turning point #Association (psychology) #History #Literature #Point (geometry) #Rash #Art #Psychology #Medicine #Aesthetics #Period (music) #Surgery
paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x0001653x
openalex publication_date 1996/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The book Angāre, a collection of ten short stories by Sajjād Ẓahīr, Rashīd Jahān, Aḥmed 'Alī and Maḥmūduzẓafar published in Lucknow in December 1932, marks a major turning point in the history of Urdu literature. Acting as a powerful catalyst, it initiated a major change in the form and content of Urdu literature and helped to lay the basis for the establishment of the Progressive Writers Association, the most significant Urdu literary movement of the twentieth century.