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...Frances W. Pritchett Masnavi: A Study of Urdu Romance . By Anna A. Suvorova . Translated by M. Osama Faruqi . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xxvi, 292 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 282 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..., and teachers may well employ it usefully in upper-level undergraduate courses, as well. BRADLEY S. C L O U G H Bard College Masnavi: A Study of Urdu Romance. By A N N A A. SUVOROVA. Translated by M. OSAMA FARUQI. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxvi, 292 pp. $29.95 (cloth). The Persian/Urdu genre...

..., Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 283 It is also true that the larger framework into which Suvorova incorporates the masnavi genre leaves something to be desired. She uncritically accepts anecdotes from unreliable sources (pp. 50 51), and apparently subscribes to the largely discredited Delhi...

... Halim Sharar. One of the defenders, the celebrated masnavi poet Ahmad Ali Shauq, argued that Nasim, being from Lucknow, was an authority and ahl-e zaban (the same category used to exclude Sarshar from the Urdu community). The Hindi-Urdu controversy had only grown in the preceding decades, which...

... enjoyable, humorous and narrative poetry of Urdu. Included here are a tantalizing taste of Sauda's (1713-1780) Incongruity of the Age, samples of the surprisingly real- RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN URDU LITERATURE 675 istic poetry of Nazir (1735-1830), a selection from Mir Hasan's (1735 1786) enchanting masnavi...

..., was a more spontaneous genre that Babur frequently wrote, although he did not regard the qit'a as true poetry (Stebleva 1982, 173 74). Finally, there was the masnavi, a series of rhyming couplets usually employed for long narratives, tales, and histories. Professional poets frequently wrote such verse...

... of the Punjab [GURINDER S I N G H M A N N ] SPENCER, A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka [TESSA BARTHOLOMEUSZ] SUBRAMANIAN, Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: Political Parties, Citizens, and Democracy in South India [ D A V I D L U D D E N ] SUVOROVA, Masnavi...

.... This, according to Habib, was a result of Eliot's reliance on faulty translations of Persian histories and his failure to recognize the historical value of literary and cultural sources, such as Masnavis (metrical romances) and Maktubat (Sufi literature) ([ 1931 ] 1974, 3–32). 5 Rajatarangini's...

... , recorded his outrage and disapproval of the fact that Brahmins had taken to wearing socks, familiarizing themselves with the use of weaponry such as the cannon, and were reading Persian masnavis (Jayananda 1994 : 135). 12 Many other instances of Persian proficiency among Brahmins can be found during...

.... Cultivation of the Persian language JBiharRS 47 (1961), 114-115. plate. and literature by the Nagaras of Gujarat. JO1B SIRCAR, D. C. Gopala III. Journal of the Asiatic 14 (Dec. 1964), 125-133. Society (Calcutta) [4th ser.] 4, no. 1 (1962), NIZAMI, K. A. Faizi's Masnavi on Akbar's con- 5-7. quest of Ahmadabad...