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Usha Rao-Monari (born 1959), economist and non-fiction writer; Santha Rama Rau (1923–2009), Indian-American novelist, playwright; Rashid-un-Nisa (1855 – 1929), the first Indian women Urdu novelist, known for her first Novel Islah un Nisa. Nuchhungi Renthlei (1914–2002), poet, singer, school teacher, women's rights activist
Her autobiography, From Purdah to Parliament (1963), is her best-known writing; she translated it into Urdu to make it more accessible. [1] [12] In 1991 her book Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: A Biography, about her uncle, was published. [12] She also was one of the eight writers of the book Common Heritage (1997), about India and Pakistan. [13]
Sughra Humayun Mirza (1884 – 1958), also known as Begum Sughra, was a social reformer, Urdu writer and traveller from Hyderabad, India. [1] [2] She is believed to be Hyderabad's first female novelist, having written 14 major novels. [1] [3] [4]
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.
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Hijab Imtiaz Ali (1908–1999) was a writer, editor and diarist. She is a well known name in Urdu literature and a pioneer of romanticism in Urdu. [1] She is also considered as the first female Muslim pilot after she obtained her official pilot license in 1936, although Zuleykha Seyidmammadova from Soviet Azerbaijan had qualified as a pilot two years earlier, in 1934.
Urdu-language writers from British India (34 P) M. Urdu-language writers from the Mughal Empire (16 P) P. Urdu-language poets from India (243 P) R.
Noor Zaheer, through her short stories and literature, focuses on socioeconomic issues in a legacy to that of the 20th century’s progressive Urdu authors. [ 1 ] Zaheer translated Iṣmat Cug̲h̲tāʼī 's Urdu memoir Kaghzi Hai Pairahan to 'The Paper Attire' in English [ 7 ] and also directed a play ' Kahani Ki Kahani, Ismat Ki Zabaani ' in ...