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Rashid Ul Khairi
Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi, born as Mohammad Abdur Rashid and largely known as Musavire Gham (مصوّرِ غم), was a social reformer from British India. He is also one of the most celebrated literary names of Urdu literature. Khairi blended reformist and didactic teachings with literary works and is considered among the pioneers of Urdu short story. He was the father of urdu novelist Sadiq ul Khairi and grandfather of prominent jurist Haziqul Khairi. Khairi founded ''ISMAT'' in June 1908, a social and literary magazine for women that served the cause of Muslim women education in India and fought for their legal rights. He wrote more than ninety books and booklets, including ''Sath Ruhoon K Aamalnamay'' and ''Nani Ashu'', two comedic works. Khairi's work depicts the circumstances of women during his time in the Indian subcontinent. According to Munshi Premchand, "Rashid ul Khairi was a great name in literature for women in Urdu and all those who know Urdu language should be gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dehli
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the Sanskrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another, they existed between 1612 and 1947, conventionally divided into three historical periods: *Between 1612 and 1757 the East India Company set up Factory (trading post), factories (trading posts) in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the Mughal emperors, Maratha Empire or local rulers. Its rivals were the merchant trading companies of Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France. By the mid-18th century, three ''presidency towns'': Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, had grown in size. *During the period of Company rule in India (1757–1858), the company gradually acquired sovereignty over large parts of India, now called "presidencies". However, it also increasingly came under British government over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadiq Ul Khairi
Sadiq ul Khairi ( ur, ; May 11, 1915, Delhi - January 26, 1989, Karachi, Sindh) was an Indian born Pakistani Urdu novelist, playwright and translator. He was the son of well-known Urdu writer Allama Rashid Al-Khairi and younger brother Razzaq Al-Khairi. Early life and education Khairi was born on May 11, 1915 in Delhi, British India. His father, Allama Rashid Al Khairi was a prominent Indian scholar and writer. Sadiq al-Khairi's grandfather Maulvi Abdul Qadir was one of the prominent scholars of Delhi. The famous Urdu writer Nazir Ahmad was the son-in-law of Maulvi Abdul Qadir. Works * * * * * * * * Death Khairi died of a heart attack in Karachi on 26 January 1989Prof. Muhammad Aslam, Khaftagan Karachi, Pakistan Research Institute, University of the Punjab, Lahore, November 1991, p. 310 and was buried in Sakhi Hassan Sakhi Hassan ( ur, ) is a neighborhood in the Karachi Central district of Karachi, Pakistan. Sakhi Hasan is named as the shrine (''mazar Maza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Nazli
Amina Begam (1914 – February 2, 1996; ), better known by her pen name Amina Nazli, was an Urdu-language writer, editor, and Feminism, feminist activist in Pakistan. She was daughter-in-law of Rashid ul Khairi, Allama Rashid ul Khairi, and the mother of prominent jurist Haziqul Khairi. Biography Amina Nazli was the pen name of Amina Begam, who was born in 1914 in Uttar Pradesh. She passed the Adib-i-Fazil examinations, an equivalent to a bachelor's degree, at the University of the Punjab. In 1929, she married Raziq-ul-Khairi, son of the prominent writer and women's rights activist Rashid ul Khairi. Nazli began writing in earnest in the 1940s, part of a new generation of fiction writers in the region. She was known for writing Urdu-language short stories, and she was also one of Pakistan's few women playwrights at the time. Her writing at times dealt with the trauma of displacement, drawing on her own experiences, and sometimes veered into the satirical. She published several boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haziqul Khairi
Haziqul Khairi ( ur, حازق الخيری ; born November 5, 1931) is a Pakistani jurist and author who served as Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, Judge of the Sindh High Court, Ombudsman of Sindh and Principal of Sindh Muslim Law College. He is the grandson of eminent British India social reformer, Allama Rashid ul Khairi. Khairi also served as Member of the Council of Islamic Ideology where as Chairman Legal Committee he drafted the Women's Protection Bill. Founder of the private law firm ''H. Khairi Law Associates'', Khairi before his appointment as a Judge of the Sindh High Court was practising as Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Personal life and education Khairi was born in Delhi on November 5, 1931, into a literary family to Raziq-ul-Khairi and Begum Amina Nazli. Khairi's grandfather was Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi, a social reformer of British India and a reputed writer of Urdu Language. Khairi is the father-in-law of senior c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munshi Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plights of women and labourers prevalent in the society of late 1880s. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. His works include ''Godaan'', ''Karmabhoomi'', '' Gaban'', ''Mansarovar'', '' Idgah''. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called ''Soz-e-Watan''. He began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand". A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" (Emperor Among Novelists) by Hindi writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Minault
Gail Minault (born 25 March 1939) is an American historian of South Asia. Life Gail Minault was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 March 1939. She was educated in the public schools of Pottstown, Pennsylvania before completing high school at the Northfield School for Girls in Northfield, Massachusetts. While attending Smith College, Minault spent her junior year abroad attending the ''École Libre des Sciences Politiques'' in Paris, France, and graduated in 1961. Minault then worked three years for the United States Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., Beirut, Lebanon, and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) before resigning to study South Asian history at the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded her M.A. degree in South Asian regional studies in 1966 and her Ph.D. six years later. Minault has been married twice. Minault's first marriage, to Thomas Graham, Jr., ended in divorce after the death of their son. She remarried Leon W. Ellsworth. Minault has one adopted daughter from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 graduate students and 3,133 teaching faculty as of Fall 2021, it is also the largest institution in the system. It is ranked among the top universities in the world by major college and university rankings, and admission to its programs is considered highly selective. UT Austin is considered one of the United States's Public Ivies. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $679.8 million for fiscal year 2018. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the LBJ Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her Masterpiece, magnum opus, ''Aag Ka Darya'' (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the fourth century BC to post partition of India.#Jn, Jnanpith, p. 42 Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880–1943). Her mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also a novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel. She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Sahitya Akademi Award to Urdu Writers, Urdu for ''Patjhar Ki Awaz'' (Short stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu novel writer, social and religious reformer, and orator. Even if today’s he’s best known for his novels, he wrote over 30 books on subjects such as law, logic, ethics and linguistics. His famous novels are ''Mirat-ul-Uroos'' ''Tobat-un-Nasuh'' and ''Ibn-ul-waqt''. He also translated the Qur’an into Urdu. Early life and upbringing Nazir Ahmad was born in 1831 to a family of scholars in Rehar, Bijnor District, U.P., India. His father, Saadat Ali Khan, was a teacher at a religious seminary, madrassa. Until the age of nine, he was home-schooled in Persian and Arabic. He then studied Arabic grammar for five years under the guidance of Deputy Collector Bajnor, Nasrallah Saheb. To further Ahmad's Arabic skills, in 1842 his father took him to Delhi to study under the guidance of Abd ul-Khaliq at the Aurangabadi Mosque. Ahmad's family was greatly opposed to sending boys to educational institutions runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the ''Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship ''Hougoumont'' in Western Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
