The Light : A History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent : A Translation of Roshnai - Sajjad Zaheer; Translated by Amina Zafar; Introduction by Khan, Ahmad Ali; Introduction to the Urdu Edition by Hasan, Sibte (Karachi Oxford University Press, 2006)
Include Illustrations, Epilogue, Bibliography and Index.
It is translated from Urdu language.
Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) was one of the main architects of the Progressive Movement in Literature in pre-Partition India. Light, his account of this movement, which transformed Urdu literature, contains many fascinating portraits of the leading writers of the time-Tagore, Premchand, and Faiz.
Keywords: All-India Progressive Writers Association -- Literature--Societies, etc. -- India -- Intellectual life -- Urdu literature--Societies, etc. -- Progressivism in literature -- Indic literature -- Urdu literature