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Her PhD on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as Liking Progress, Loving Change .

She has published over twenty books and written over fifty academic papers and essays.

Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic and literary historian.

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A brave and friendly exposition of the syncretic Muslim-Hindu culture of India (especially the Ganga-Jumna region of North India) in the decades before Independence and the Partition. The title may raise expectations of a socio-political treatise on what it means to be a Muslim in the Hindu-majority, secular, India, but only the barest suggestion of this is provided in the personal introduction; most of the rest is in the nature of a literary exposition of Urdu literature, from both Muslim show more and Hindu poets and authors. The author has give copious quotations from all the significant works, and moreover provided both the original Urdu (in Roman, i.e. English, transcription), as well as elegant English translations. One thing becomes evident as the average reader courses through this material: the usual Higher-Secondary Hindi sy

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The Novel Cure
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Footprints on Zero Line
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But You Don't Look Like a Muslim
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Preeto and Other Stories: The Male Gaze in Urdu
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Neither Night Nor Day
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New Urdu Writings: From India & Pakistan
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Jallianwala Bagh: Literary Responses in Prose & Poetry
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Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times
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Shahryar: A Life in Poetry
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A Rebel and Her Cause: The Lif

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Rakhshanda Jalil

Indian writer, critic and literary historian

Rakhshanda Jalil (born 20 July ) is an Indian writer, translator, critic and literary historian. She is known for her book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of Delhi^[1]^[2] and a well-received collection of short stories, called Release & Other Stories^[3]^[4] (HarperCollins, ). Her PhD on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as Liking Progress, Loving Change^[5]^[6] (). Jalil runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.

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Jalil graduated from Miranda house, Delhi University in She started her career as a lecturer in Khalsa College.^[7] After that she worked at Aligarh Muslim University as lecturer (), editorial assistant at Tata McGraw-Hill B