... which will be useful to many future generations of South Asia specialists. N. GERALD BARRIER University of Missouri, Columbia Ghalib: 1797-1869. Vol. I, Life and Letters. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY RALPH RUS- SELL AND KHURSHIDUL ISLAM. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. 404 pp. Chronology, Notes...

...Frances W. Pritchett Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography . By Natalia Prigarina . Translated by M. Osama Faruqi . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 361 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 761 He calls...

...Frances Pritchett Ghalib 1797–1869: Life and Letters . By Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . 404 pp. $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 194 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES welfare of the many...

...Frances Pritchett The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters, and Ghazals . By Ralph Russell . New Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 2003 . viii, 572 pp. Rs 1125/$39.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I...

... an attractive abridgement of a classic. N. GERALD BARRIER University of Missouri, Columbia Dastanbuy: A Diary of the Indian Revolt of 1857. BY MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB. TRANSLATED BY KHWAJA AHMAD FARUQI. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1970. 96 pp. Glossary, Chronology, Index. $6.95. Despite its limited...

... are to be congratulated for making available an attractive abridgement of a classic. N. GERALD BARRIER University of Missouri, Columbia Dastanbuy: A Diary of the Indian Revolt of 1857. BY MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB. TRANSLATED BY KHWAJA AHMAD FARUQI. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1970. 96 pp. Glossary, Chronology...

... Poets and Ghalib: Life and Letters (Harvard University Press, 1968, 1969, respectively), and the publication of several collections of critical essays and anthologies of Urdu literature in translation, this situation has fortunately begun to change. Although all of these works are interesting both...

...Bishnu Poudel 716 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES over. On the role played by Ghalib in the events of 1857, the editors write: "No reference to his name had been found in the royal papers . . ." (p. 152) while the reality appears otherwise. The reports of spies Jivan Lai and Gauri Shankar, indicating...

... then on a separate chapter is devoted to each year from 1857 until the poet's death, so that the last twelve of his seventy-two years receive much more extensive coverage (about 237 pages). This seemingly unbalanced coverage results from the authors' careful use of Ghalib's letters as their chief sources: far more...

..., or anthropology. RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA Brown University The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters, and Ghazals. By RALPH RUSSELL. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. viii, 572 pp. Rs 1125/ $39.95 (cloth). Here is a solid compendium of much of Ralph Russell s lifelong work on Ghalib. It is primarily...

... of this painstaking study. Henry Scholberg is to be congratulated for preparing a research tool which will be useful to many future generations of South Asia specialists. N. GERALD BARRIER University of Missouri, Columbia Ghalib: 1797-1869. Vol. I, Life and Letters. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY RALPH RUS- SELL...

... the meaningfulness of the rst line, which emphases the self-regard and selfadornment evoked by a mirror. Another case in point: Thousands of signs of love cannot match one averted gaze Thousands of self-adornings cannot match one are of wrath. (p. 358) In this verse, Ghalib has pointedly provided no verb...

..., and by the emergence of formal schools of art in Bengal and the Punjab that gave new individuality to the painter as artist. Chughtai illustrated the poetry of Ghalib and Iqbal and thus became known for the fluidity of his graphic art. His sinuous lines transformed Mughal imagery. This is not nostalgia so much...

... University of Technology Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography. By NATALIA P R I G A R I N A . Translated by M. OSAMA FARUQI. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000. 361 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Natalia Prigarina, described on the flyleaf as "Head of the Department of Textology and Literary Monuments...

... SOUTH ASIA 763 The general reader seeking an English narrative about Ghalib's life would still be best advised to turn to the far more scholarly and disciplined account offered by Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam in Ghalib, 1797-1869 (Allen & Unwin, 1969). Now entering its fourth decade, this work...

... apparent than in Lelyveld's masterful comparison of the game of cricket, another British transplant whichflourishedat Aligarh, to the Urdu musha'irah (pp. 258-60). The passage is complete with a verse from Ghalib, accompanied by a whimsical footnote commenting that there is no evidence that Ghalib...

... of writers have been expanded and substantially rewritten: among them are Sauda, Nazlr, Atish, Dablr, Ghalib, Zafar, Rusva (Sadiq has now reconsidered his low opinion of Umrd'ojdn Add), and Iqbal. In addition, a great deal of new material has been incorporated. Above all, Sadiq now extends his coverage...

... with Claudia Preckel s essay, which provides a thorough and suggestive account of the hit Hindi lm Amar Akbar Anthony, superstar Amitabh Baccan, and modes of masculinity and secularism. Alain De´soulie`res mixes media, comparing three different text and lm portrayals of Ghalib and the historical, romantic...

... of Anarkali and the ghazal s of Ghalib; and from colonial-era Bengali novels ( Devdas and Choker Bali ) to the postcolonial politics of Hindi film songs and representations of Partition (through the novel and film Dharmaputra ). This broad range of subjects is mediated by the prism of filmic adaptation...

... performance is, thereby allowing the reader to see the virtuosity of the qawwal s who interweave Shabistari, Rumi, Ghalib, Mansur al-Hallaj, and other Sunni, Shii, and Sufi luminaries into their own compositions. The third chapter investigates sectarian approaches to Karbala in Shii usage, focusing...