Rahi Masoom Reza

Bodh Prakash is former Professor of English at the School of Letters, Ambedkar University Delhi. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Strasbourg and the College of Wooster, and a Long Room Hub Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. A member of the international SPECTRESS programme on Cultural Trauma, his work focuses on the Indian Partition of 1947. His major book is Writing Partition: Ideology and Aesthetics in Hindi and Urdu Literature. He has also co-edited Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions in India (University of Delhi). He has engaged with the afterlife of the Indian Partition in independent India in many of his writings.

• List of Illustrations. Foreword – Sanjay Kumar. Series Preface. Preface. Acknowledgements Introduction – Bodh Prakash Part 1 Rahi’s Creative Expression. Fiction 1. Aadha Gaon (Extracts) 2. Topi Shukla (Extracts) 3. Desolation (Short story) Poetry 4. Introduction to Rahi’s poetry 5. Selected Poems Scripting 6. Mahabharat (Extracts) 7. On Mahabharat Part 2 Rahi, the Critic 8. Tulsi’s Ramcharitmanas 9. Muharram, a genuine Indian festival 10. The Story- From the Writer to the Producer 11. Cinema, Literature and the Curriculum 12. A Slice of Sunshine Part 3 Assessing Rahi. Partition, its Aftermath, and Indian Muslims 13. Memory, History and Fictional Representations of Partition 14. Partition, Nationalism and the Indian Muslim 15. Society, Language and Nation in Rahi Masoom Reza’s Aadha Gaon and Topi Shukla 16. The Tragedy of Partition and Women in Rahi’s Fiction Poetry, Progressive and Modern 17. Resistance and Representation: Rahi Masoom Reza’s 1857 18. Introduction to Mein ek Pheriwala 19. Rahi Masoom Reza’s Writings and Contemporary times Language and Script 20. Rahi’s Language opens a new Window 21. Rahi Masoom Reza and the Discourse on Language 22. Tracing Shifts in the Linguistic and Communal Dynamics of India: A Re-reading of Rahi Masoom Reza’s Topi Shukla Part 4 Translating Rahi 23. Translating Rahi Masoom Reza’s Aadha Gaon and Topi Shukla: A Critique 24. On translating Aadha Gaon 25. Re-ceiving Topi Shukla: Then and Now Part 5 Conversations 26. Rahi Was Dead Against Narrow-mindedness: Kunwarpal Singh in Conversation with Devendra Gupta 27. The Muslim Society was Created on the Basis of the Hindu Society: Dr. Abdul Bismillah in Conversation with Chandradev Yadav 28. May the Conversation not stop (between Ali Sardar Jafri and Dr Rahi Masoom Reza) Bio-chronology – Rahi’s life and works. List of Rahi’s published works. Bibliography. Notes on contributors and translators. Index