Karbala : A Historical Play by Premchand
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PoetPoet
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0190132639
ISBN-13
9780190132637
Publisher
OUP India
Imprint
OUP India
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 12th, 2023
Print length
241 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.80 x 2.70 cms
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This work is a translation of one of Premchand''s plays, Karbala, published in 1924. It is based on an event in Islamic history, the battle of Karbala, in which the younger grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Hussain, was martyred along with his family at the hands of the sinful caliph Yazid bin Muawiya. Premchand''s retelling of the historic episode was daring at a time when communal sentiments where running high.
In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad''s grandson, Imam Hussain,sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert ofKarbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India,when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about thispivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative.This first-ever English translation of Premchand''s outstanding play Karbala(1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It revealsPremchand''s profound understanding of the communal conflict in earlytwentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tunewith Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions.
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