India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry: Awakening

by Gopi Chand Narang

Book Overview

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India's freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope.

Urdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries in speeches and writings as slogans for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032424036
• ISBN13: 9781032424033
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"