Author: Gopi Chand Narang
Publisher: National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
Year: 2001
Language: Bi-Lingual
Pages: 352
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
The selections have been carefully chosen to present a wide range of subjects and styles. Folklore, excerpts from novels, short stories, literary and humorous essays anecdotes, letters, historical and biographical writings, as well as parliamentary debates and speeches have been included.
An intermediate text comprising selection from literary Urdu prose and excerpts from speeches, arranged in order of increasing lexical and stylistic difficulty, this teaching aid provides for students having an elementary knowledge of Urdu a smooth transition to more advanced texts and gives them an appreciation of those features of the cultural tradition that have most enriched the Urdu language.
The selections have been carefully chosen to present a wide range of subjects and styles. Folklore, excerpts from novels, short stories, literary and humorous essays anecdotes, letters, and historical and biographical writings, as well as parliamentary debates and speeches have been included. An additional list of contents, arranged chronologically, and a brief introduction preceding each selection enable the student to place the works in the proper historical and literary perspective. A serial glossary of words and explanatory notes appear on pages facing the Urdu text.
This was the first Urdu reader published in the United States in ‘Nastaliq’ calligraphy, the form in which Urdu is most commonly printed. The calligraphy was done at Delhi by one of the best exponents of this art.
The reader was first published by the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin and London in 1968, and was available later on microfiche. During these years it has been widely used globally in places as far apart as U S A, Japan, Norway and Turkey. In Indian it is being published for the first time by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language as a self-study material for students with an elementary knowledge of Urdu.
Prof. Gopi Chand Narang, a leading scholar of Urdu language and literature, presently is the Vice-President of Sahitya Akademi, the National Academy of Letters, and the Vice-Chairman of the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language.
Contents
Conventions Used in the Glossary
Urdu Orthography
CHAPTER I
Some Old Tales
CHAPTER II
The Arabian Nights
CHAPTER III
True Love
CHAPTER IV
Premchand
CHAPTER V
Godan
CHAPTER VI
Umrao Jan Ada
CHAPTER VII
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
CHAPTER VIII
Fancy Fair
CHAPTER IX
Maulana Azad in Lok Sabha
CHAPTER X
Nam Dev Gardener
CHAPTER XI
A Road a Quarter Mile Long
CHAPTER XII
Celibacy
CHAPTER XIII
Charpoy
CHAPTER XIV
Jawahar Lal Nehru
CHAPTER XV
Mirza Ghalib
CHAPTER XVI
Bagh-o-Bahar