{"product_id":"evolution-of-ghalib-nap163","title":"The Evolution of Ghalib","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eNAP163\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/it\/book-author\/hasan%20abdullah\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Hasan Abdullah\"\u003eHasan Abdullah\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/it\/book-publisher\/rupa%20publication%20pvt%20ltd\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Rupa Publication Pvt. 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Born and brought up in north India, he wrote both brought up in north India, he wrote both in his mother tongue Urdu and in Persians, the established and privileged language of literature and officialdom. He wrote exquisite prose, but is better known for his poetry, particularly his Urdu Ghazals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e In The Evolution of Ghalib,the author, Hasan Abdullah, provides a detailed introduction that describes Ghalib’s life history, brings out his persona and situates his work in time and space. He briefly discusses the Urdu language and the ghazal as literary form and familiarizes the reader with the words, symbols and concepts crucial for understanding Ghalib’s continually evolving poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Based in a chronological reading of Ghalib’s Urdu ghazals, the author identifies the different stages and phases of the poet’s development and from each of these phases selects and interprets verses, including those that differ from the dominant trend, in order to reveal Ghalib’s intellectual evolution. The book aims to make reading and urdu ghazals a pleasurable and enlightening experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Schooled in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Hasan Abdullah is a graduate from Delhi College of Engineering and postgraduate from the Indian Insitute of Technology Delhi. Besides consulting , researching and publishing as a professional engineering researcher, he has published articles on society and literature , including some on the poetry of Ghalib. In Urdu and English periodicals. He discusses Urdu poetry of Ghalib at\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e https:\/\/ghalibkaarvaan.wordpress.com A. Naseeb Khan has a doctorate on translation of modern Urdu poetry into English. He has to his credit several translated and edited volumes.including the translation of Maut ki Kitab, an Urdu novel by Kahlid Jawes; a monograph on Moin Ahsan Jazbi, published by Sahitya Akademi; and a collection of poems titled Rip Not the Sore. At present, be is the Principle of Syed Abid Husain Senior Secondary School, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan Ghalib (27 December 1797-15 February 1869)-Arguably the best exponent of the Urdu Ghazal –was born and raised in the northern region of nineteenth-century feudal India. During Ghalib’s life the British, who had completed the conquest of India by 1803, had allowed the old Mughal court in Delhi to continue as the centre of cultural life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e For almost 200 years from the eighteen century to the twentieth century, while Urdu was the lingua franca of India, Persian was the language of governance, diplomacy and culture. As a result, it was considered prestigious to write poetry in Persian during that time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Urdu got boost in 1972, when Shah Alam II took up residence at the Red Fort in Delhi and gave patronage to Urdu and used it informally around the court. In the eighteenth century, the development of Urdu, that it Persianized Hindustani, took place in Mughal court circles in Delhi. Prior ot that, one finds it in the Dakani speech of the Deccan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Into this milieu appeared Ghalib, a man with an aristocratic background, a fatherless childhood and an early yoth of carefree gaiety. However, his adult life was beset with serious financial difficulties and he suffered other indignities. He interacted with several of the most famous Indian Litterateurs and British scholars of nineteenth-century India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Ghalib’s first literary work,a collection of Urdu poetry,was ready by 1816, when he was just eighteen years old. T that time, however, he was engaged in mastering Persian which that society considered the literary language. In 1828, Ghalib compiled the manuscript Gul-e Rana, which contained twenty-seven Persin ghazals in addition to his Urdu poetry. Although the quantum of Ghalib’s poetry in Urdu is much less than in Persians but he has become ‘Ghalib’ (predominant) for posterity because of his Urdu ghazals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Ghalib’s Urdhu ghazals attract a highly diverse set of people –rich and poor, literary and scientific, uneducated and erudite, layperson and polymath, lover and beloved, men and women, young and old, even the oppressor and the oppressed, those sunk into the past and reactionary, as well as those who are forward-looking and progressive. The plausible reasons appear to be that his couplets which are expressed in the most exquisite language using devices such a swordplay, hyperbole, irony and paradox, reflect diverse situation, depict a range of human emotions and provide deep insights into man’s life and his relationship with Nature. To quote Ghalib:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e How great delight her eloquence contain! For what she said\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Made me feel each time as if that too was there in my heart\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Ghalib’s thoughts have been an irresistible draw for me and some of my friend from our college days. This couplet, which later turned out to be hallmark of his poetry. Attracted us most, and was the topic of much discussion and debate:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e God was, when nothing existed, God would have been, if nothing had existed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e My being is cause of my nemesis, had I not existed, what would have happened?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Around a decade ago, when I, along with a friend, scanned all the available books on Ghalib in English, we were surprised that despite the vast amount of literature on his poetry, the aspect of time was missing. Even in Urdu, the solitary exception was then chronological compilation of Ghalib’s complete Urdu poetry by Kalidas Gupta Reza. However, People ignored it and continued to read the popular Diwan-e Gahlib, the selection of Ghalib’s poetry arranged according to rhyme, and no litterateur ever tried to take advantage of this gold mine to have a deep into the evolution of Ghalib –as an intellectual or even as a poet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e I felt that a chronological studyof Ghlalib’s Urdu ghazals would help in better appreciation of his poetry and shed some light on what are, or appear to be, radically divergent views. For instance, some of the following couplets extreme dejection whereas others are brimming over with satisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Let me now dwell in the part of land uninhabited,where there is No one to share my poetry, and no one knows my tongue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e I crave no praise, nor do I bother for prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e If my poetry shows no depth, let it be so\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Though the world has yet poets with their signature styles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e They say, with his singular style of expression, Ghalib stands apart\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e These issues of mysticiam- and your sublime discourse, Ghalib\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e We would have taken you for a saint, had you not been a boozer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The result of my research is the book wherein I have interpreted selected couplets that are chronologically arranged, thereby revealing Ghalib’s evolution of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd width=\"90%\"\u003e Preface\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"10%\"\u003e ix\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Trnslator's Challenge\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e xiii\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 1\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Space and Time Life\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 3\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Life\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 4\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Personality\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 10\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Literary Affairs\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 13\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Urdu Language and Ghzal\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 19\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Vocabulary\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 22\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Highlights of the Work\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 30\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Contours of Evolution\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 33\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Guide to Roman Script\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 38\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003eStages of Evolution\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Debut I - 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