This volume forms a part of the important multivolume series Critical Discourses in South Asia, which explores schools, movements, and critical discursive practices in major languages. It brings together English translations of major writings dealing with Urdu literary culture, criticism, and theory, and re-visits and re-evaluates literary concepts and categories over the last one and a half centuries that contributed to the making of its critical tradition.
The book with its wide coverage will serve as a useful guide for scholars and researchers of literary and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for those scholars in Urdu language and literature, comparative literature, literary criticism, literary theory, regional language studies, area studies, history, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, politics, gender studies, postcolonial studies, South Asian Studies, Third World and Global South Studies, as well as those working on conservation of languages and cultures and the Urdu diaspora across the world.