Karbala

A Historical Play by Premchand
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-013263-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain,
sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of
Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India,
when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about this
pivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative.
This first-ever English translation of Premchand's outstanding play Karbala
(1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It reveals
Premchand's profound understanding of the communal conflict in early
twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune
with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Premchand

Zaidi, Nishat

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zaidi, Nishat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- 1. Preface

- 2. Introduction

- 3. The Play

- 4. Appendices:

- A. Premchand's Defence of the Play

- B. Premchand's Letter to Daya Narain Nigam, Editor of Zamana regarding the Play

- C. Hindi Vs Urdu Versions of the Play and General Notes about the Translation

- D. A Glossary

- E. Urdu /Hindi Texts of Poems

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Nishat Zaidi is Professor and Head, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Languages,
Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.