Progressive Literary Movement in Urdu

Abstract

The purely research article covers a wide range of topics related to the
historical upbringing of progressive literary movement in Urdu. The
question of justifiable explanation to the existence of the progressive
literature has been dealt briefly but with substantial logic. It covers a
plethora of subtitles of literary moment in Urdu such as: the beginning of
progressive literary movement, its background and historical perspective,
the first manifesto of progressive writers, foundation of progressive
writer’s association and so on. The article also includes the first and fifth
conference of progressive writers along with the mention of their first
conference after partition in Lucknow in December 1947. The article
concludes with the note on the fall of progressive literary movement in
Urdu along with the summary of progressive poetry, fiction, novel and
criticism. The data for the article has been collected through the study of
various books such as Tareekh-e-urdu Adab (Rambabu Saxena) Roshnai
(Sajjad Zaheer) etc