Author: Shaista Akhtar Suhrawardy
Publisher: Cosmo Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 316
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129200589
Description
INTRODUCTION
What, in the absence of this brief note of introduction, might escapethe reader is the remarkable fact that the book is not the production of an elderly college don, but of a woman of comparatively tender years who is a member of that community in India which was admittedly slow in exchanging the education provided at the indigenous maktabs and madressahs, for that of the colleges and universities modeled on the educational institutions of the West.
And as a former Chancellor of the Calcutta University, it gives me sincere pleasure to be able to congratulated her on being the first Muslim to graduate from that university with Honours in English Literature, and the first Muslim lady from any country to have been awarded the degree of PhD of the London University.-Zetland
Contents
PART I
CHAPATERS
I: A SHORT HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE NOVEL
First, appearance of the novel
Development of the novel
The structure of the novel
II: CONDITION THAT LED TO THE BIRTH OF THE NOVEL IN URDU
Contact with the West
The Development of P