Download or read book The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature written by Mehr Afshan Farooqi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The `Fiction` volume includes both short stories and extracts from novels and novellas. Beginning with Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (1857-1931), it moves on to Premchand, Ghulam Abbas, Krishan Chander, Rajender singh Bedi, Intizar Husain, Qurratulain Hyder, Abdullah Hussein, and Naiyer Masud among others, and finally, Syed Muhammad Ashraf.