About the Book: Early Urdu Literary Culture And History
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi tells the fascinating story of how Urdu grew into one of
the subcontinents great literary languages. In doing so, he also takes us back
to the intertwined beginnings of Hindi and Urdu, questioning many of the
familiar assumptions about where the two languages came from and how they
developed.
Drawing on a remarkable range of poetry and literary traditions, Faruqi
explores the major forms of Urdu poetry and the writers who shaped them. But
this is much more than a history of poets and poetry. It is also the story of