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The Nature of Urdu Poetry The Nature of Urdu Poetry
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Comparisons with Western Literature Comparisons with Western Literature
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How Do They Describe the Marsiya? How Do They Describe the Marsiya?
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Guidelines for Would-Be Historians Guidelines for Would-Be Historians
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14 How Not to Write the History of Urdu Literature: 1987
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Published:October 2022
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Abstract
Russell discusses the limitations of the histories of Urdu literature by Ram Babu Saksena (1927) and T Graeme Bailey (1932) (the only ones available when he was a student) and later by Muhammad Sadiq (1965). They talk of the ‘limitations’ of Urdu poetry, comparing it and other genres unfavourably to English or classical European models, rather than considering it on its own terms. He gives many examples of this from all three writers. He gives as a particular example their description of the marsiya. They describe what they consider its limitations, without giving any sense of the power a marsiya has over listeners within that culture. His guidance for would-be historians of literature is to only embark on it if you feel enthusiastic about the literature, then to consider what readers from another culture need to have explained to them so that they can enter into it.
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