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ANWARI
BEGUM
TYABA BEGUM BILGRAMI
Translated by Aamer Hussein
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Written in 1905 and serialised a few years later, Anwari Begum is one of the most accomplished early 20th century works of Urdu fiction by a women writer. Remembered today for her contribution to the cause of Muslim women, the author was the contemporary of other activist/novelists such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein and Sugra Humayun Mirza, but her work has a delicacy and technical skill not found in their work. She uses the secluded interiors of aristocratic homes in the princely state of Hyderabad at the beginning of the 20th century to examine the changing mores of Indian Muslim society as it opened to Western and colonial influences, but also to the liberal reforms suggested by enlightened Indian thinkers. Her emphasis is on the shift in gender roles and on relationships between men and women, but her purpose is not primarily polemical. Her story of love, marriages and death in one family not only vividly captures aristocratic Hyderabad, it also anticipates the impact of modernity on an old culture.
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AAMER HUSSEIN
was born in Karachi in 1955, and moved to England in 1970. He has a degree from SOAS in Urdu, Persian and Modern South Asian History. Best known for his volume of short stories, which include the
The Blue Direction and Cactus Town, he has also translated fiction, including, the work of Hijab Imtiaz Ali, from Urdu. Aamer Hussein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is at present a research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of English Studies, Univerity of London.
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