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  2. Rashid-un-Nisa - Wikipedia

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    Rashid Un Nisa (1855 – 1929) or RashidatunNisa, Raseedan Bibi was the first Indian women Urdu Novelist, social reformer and author. She is known for her first Novel Islah un Nisa. She opened a school for girls, which is considered to be the first girls' school in Bihar. [1] [2]

  3. Rekhti - Wikipedia

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    Rekhti (Urdu: ریختی, Hindi: रेख़ती), is a form of Urdu feminist poetry.A genre developed by male poets, [1] it uses women's voices to talk about themselves. [2] [3] [4] It was formed in 19th-century Lucknow, then part of the State of Awadh (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). [1]

  4. List of Urdu prose dastans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dāstāns and qissas (prose fiction) written in Urdu during the 18th and 19th centuries. The skeleton of the list is a reproduction of the list provided by Gyan Chand Jain in his study entitled Urdū kī nasrī dāstānen .

  5. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    During the nineteenth century, the centre of Urdu literature shifted from Delhi as most literary men migrated to other parts of India like Hyderabad, Patna, and Lucknow. The Lucknow court emerged as the centre of Urdu poetry as it received poets from Delhi with much enthusiasm. [17] Chief among these poets were Khaliq, Zamir, Aatish, and Nasikh ...

  6. Culture of Domesticity - Wikipedia

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    The Cult of Domesticity affected married women's labor market participation in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. [27] " True Women" were supposed to devote themselves to unpaid domestic labor and refrain from paid, market-oriented work.

  7. Nawab Faizunnesa - Wikipedia

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    New research is unearthing more and more past Bengali Muslim women writers. Now we know about Rahimunnessa of the eighteenth century whose poetry manuscript was first discovered in 1955, about Rahima and Zamirunnessa from Chittagong who the literary historians believe wrote in the first half of the nineteenth century. These three still remain ...

  8. Ada Jafri - Wikipedia

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    Ada Jafarey was part of a traditionally conservative society where women were not allowed to think and express independently. [2] But she was bold enough to express herself. [6] Despite having traditionality ingrained in her personality, she took part in modern art. [1] As early as 1950, she was recognized as the First Lady of Urdu Poetry.

  9. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى, romanized: Urdū Shāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . Several prominent Urdu poets include Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d. 1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and Josh ...