Nationalism in Urdu Poetry: A Special Study of Some Urdu Poems
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https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/20235Keywords:
Urdu Literature, Urdu Poetry, NationalismAbstract
Urdu literature in general and Urdu poetry in particular, always played its part in generating, shaping and mobilizing Indian public opinion, and defeated thereof all odds of time and space through India’s progressive journey. Accordingly, Urdu literature resisted the British imperialism from its very beginning. However, during the first half of 20th century, when British employed in full swing all political, military, ideological and Machiavellian tools to maintain their imperial permanence in India, thereby dividing Indians on different grounds, Urdu poetry performed well its moral responsibility of generating and mobilizing united public opinion against British rule. Urdu poets fought British Raj by inculcating among Indians spirit of harmony, unity, patriotism, and sacrifice. Urdu poetry, besides giving a vide space to all forms of anti-British resistance going on in India and abroad, also quickened the pace of freedom movement by mobilizing the public opinion against British Raj. This piece of research therefore, explores the dominant nationalistic trends in Urdu poetry during first half of 20th century.
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