Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Literary Notes: A kaleidoscope of memorable characters in Urdu novels

Pakistan Press Foundation

Urdu novel has come of age. Beginning with Moulvi Nazir Ahmed Dehlvi’s Mirat-ul-aroos (1869), this long journey has taken about 145 years. But the impact of English novel on the development of Urdu novel cannot be denied and our earliest novelists were indeed much influenced by English literature and English novel. Nazir Ahmed Dehlvi, often […]