Rakhshanda Jalil

About The Author

Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is a multi-award-winning translator, writer, and literary historian. She has published over 25 books and written over 50 academic papers and essays. Some of her books include: Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu (OUP, 2014); a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan: A Rebel and her Cause (Women Unlimited, 2014); a translation of The Sea Lies Ahead, Intizar Husain's seminal novel on Karachi (Harper Collins, 2015) and Krishan Chandar's partition novel Ghaddar (Westland, 2017), among others. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.

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Books by Rakhshanda Jalil

Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?

Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers

By Rakhshanda Jalil

Is Urdu the language of Muslims? Or, to be more precise, the language of Indian Muslims?

In modern-day India, is Urdu a language of Upper India? What of the Deccan plateau, then, which was once the cradle of Urdu? Can the India south of the Vindhyas lay claim to Urdu? What of t...

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Love in the Time of Hate

In the Mirror of Urdu

By Rakhshanda Jalil

Kabhi hum bhi tum bhi thhe aashna tumhein yaad ho ke na yaad ho
Once you and I were friends, whether you remember it now or not--Momin Khan Momin

This is a book about love—love for one’s country and for all that goes to make it one we can be proud to belong to.

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