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Prof Nishat Zaidi
Author & Professor
Professor,
Former Head
Department of English,
Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University)
Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Marg,
New Delhi-110025
Latest Articles
Premchand’s Karbala: An Appeal to Human Conscience
Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand edited and translated by Nishat Zaidi, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2023; pp xvii + 219, `1,695. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Economic and Political Weekly (@epw.in) Of the voluminous body of Premchand’s literary works, a substantial part has been rendered into English, not to mention other […]
Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand
Edited and Translated by Professor Nishat Zaidi, Karbala (Oxford University Press, 2022) 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. In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family […]
When Premchand wrote a play about Islamic history to highlight communal tensions in 1900s’ India
Premchand began writing Karbala in July 1923 and finished it in January 1924. The play was first published in Hindi by Ganga Pustak Mala in November 1924. Two years later, it was serialised in Zamana from July 1926 to April 1928, but with some alterations. The play was translated into Urdu partly by Premchand himself and partly by Premchand’s […]