{"product_id":"indias-freedom-struggle-and-the-urdu-poetry-9781032424033","title":"Indias Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India's freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries in speeches and writings as slogans for freedom and a call to action. Poets such as Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Sahir, Makhdoom, Kaifi Azmi, Majaz, Majrooh, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote highly patriotic poetry which was used not only to inspire and help mobilize people but also to offer criticism of existing socio-cultural practices in India and promote reform and equality. This work  a creative and selective translation of the book \u003ci\u003eHindustan Ki Tahriik-e Aazadi aur Urdu Shaa'yiri \u003c\/i\u003eby Professor Gopi Chand Narang  includes English translations of poems from rare historical \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface PART I: Prison and the Hanging Post 1. The Patriotic Tradition: From Amir Khusrau to 1857 2. The 1857 Uprising and the Urdu Poetry 3. Uneasy Calm Before the Storm 1857-1914 4. The First World War and Its Aftermath 5. The Progressive and Nationalist Poetry 6. The Banned and Witness Poetry PART II: Leading Poets of the Freedom Struggle 7. Durga Sahai Suroor Jahanabadi 8. Josh Malihabadi 9. Tilok Chand Mehroom 10. Firaq Gorakhpuri Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019046027607,"sku":"9781032424033","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032424033.jpg?v=1750779134","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indias-freedom-struggle-and-the-urdu-poetry-9781032424033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}