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Important Note About This Book :
- This book investigates the relationship between modernity & colonial attitudes in the context of Urdu literature. In the first chapter, theories of modernity offered by western critics & thinkers have been debated with the assertion that, on one hand, modernity had a close relationship with colonial Attutudes & , on the other, modernity is not something that evolved exclusively in the West.
- During colonial rule, a particular form of western modernity was employed and disseminated across British India to disguise the economic & cultural exploitation. It is also asserted that precolonial India had its own kind of modernity that produced great poets likes of Bedil and Ghalib. Two full-fledged chapters have been reserved for these modern Persian and Urdu poets.
- In the further chapters, specific forms of modernity, which evolved at the cost of erasing precolonial memories & preventing the emergence of a national ethos, have been discussed with reference to modern Urdu writers of 20th century.
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