Kausar Chandpuri (8 August 1900 – 13 June 1990) was an Indian

Unani Unani or Yunani medicine (Urdu: ''tibb yūnānī'') is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. The Indian Medical Association describes U ...

physician and

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, short story writer and literary critic.

Biography

Kausar Chandpuri was the

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of Ali Kausar who was born on 8 August 1900 at Chandpur, District

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, India. He studied

medicine at Princess Asifa Tibbia College,

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. Thereafter, he worked at Unani Shifakhana,

, from where he retired as Afsur-ul-Atibba. Later on he moved to

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and joined Hamdard Nursing Home. He died in

on 13 June 1990.

Literary life

Kausar Chandpuri wrote seventeen

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

s, fourteen collections of short-stories, four books of

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and six books on

satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...

. He was a fluent writer of Urdu Prose. He held the view that short stories should seek to improve the standards of morality. His book, ''Jahan e Ghalib'', which was written in response to

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’s Zikr e Ghalib, dealt with the darker side of

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’s character and life, and is a classic. He also wrote articles and books on

medicine, practice and history (such as on the development of Unani medicines and treatments during the reign of the

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s). He also brought to light a ninth-century manuscript, ''Danish Namah e Jahan'', which was reproduced in the book ''Studies in the History of Medicine 4'' (1980), pages 53–56. His major works are ''Jahaan e Ghalib'', ''Atibba e ahd e Mughliyaa'', ''Raakh aur Kaliyaan'', ''Patthar kaa gulaab'', ''Murjhaii kaliyaan'', ''Karvaan hamaaraa'', ''Hakim Ajmal Khan'', ''Fikr o sh’uur'' and ''Didah e binaa''. Zafar Ahmed Nizami published an appraisal of the life and works of Kausar Chandpuri, entitled ''Kausar Chandpuri'' (). Obaidur Rehman Hashmi's article, "Kausar Chandpuri ki Afsana Nigari", which evaluates Kausar Chandpuri's Urdu short stories, is included in Altaf Ahmed Azmi's book ''Tibbe Unani''.English Publications - Jamia Millia Islamia http://jmi.ac.in/upload/employeeresume/qhashmi.pdf

Bibliography

Kausar Chandpuri's books include: * ''Mehakatii bahaaren'' * ''Pyasii nadiyaa'' * ''Dilchasp afsaane'' * ''Goongaa hai Bhagwaan'' * ''Atibba e ahd e Mughliyaa'' * ''Hakeem Ajmal Khan'' * ''Murjhaaii kaliyaan'' * ''Md. Bairam Khan'' * ''Raakh aur kaliyaan'' * ''Patthar kaa gulaab'' * ''Didah e binaa'' * ''Kaarwaan hamaaraa'' * ''Fikr o sh’uur'' * ''Muskarahaten''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chandpuri, Kausar 1900 births 1990 deaths Urdu-language writers from India Muslim writers Indian male novelists Urdu-language short story writers Unani practitioners 20th-century novelists 20th-century Indian male writers People from Bijnor district