The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

यह फारवर्ड प्रेस की बहुजन साहित्य वार्षिकी: 2013 का संपादकीय है। इसमें बहुजन साहित्य और बहुजन आलोचना की अवधारणा पर संक्षेप में बात की गई है।
आलेख में कहा गया है कि बहुजन साहित्य का विकास वस्तुत: बहुजन आलोचना का विकास है। जैसे-जैसे हम बहुजन साहित्य को चिन्हित करते जाएंगे, अभिजन साहित्य स्वत: ही हाशिए का साहित्य बनता जाएगा क्योंकि हिंदी साहित…[Read more]

This is an editorial in Forward Press’s Bahujan Literature Yearbook: 2013. It briefly discusses the concept of Bahujan literature and Bahujan criticism.
Bahujan literature is a big umbrella, under which falls Dalit literature (For convenience’s sake we can describe it as “Atishudra literature”), Shudra literature, Tribal literature and Women…[Read more]

Novel has created as many forms as the novels have been written so for. Starting from realism it has went through a lot of transformations and adopted or invented generic techniques to narrate almost everything human. In Urdu, novel usually concerned more about the social life and social change it depicted. By maintaining a liquidating equilibrium…[Read more]