Ismat Chugtai’s Thrust for Education and Hate of Pardha or Burqa

Authors: Sanjay P. Lalani

Country: India

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Abstract: This paper depicts Ismat Chugtai as an inventive and imaginative writer who offers Urdu literature a fresh perspective. Her autobiography, A Life in Words: Memoirs, which was translated by M. Assaduddin from the Urdu work Kaghazi Hai Pairahan, discusses the status of Muslim women in her Uttar Pradesh, India, community. She has written on the prejudice against females' education and battles against patriarchal and cultural norms in order to pursue an education. She describes several aspects of a woman's life in this incomplete memoir.

Keywords: Burqa, Prejudice, Muslim Community

Paper Id: 1702

Published On: 2021-02-07

Published In: Volume 9, Issue 1, January-February 2021

Cite This: Ismat Chugtai’s Thrust for Education and Hate of Pardha or Burqa - Sanjay P. Lalani - IJIRMPS Volume 9, Issue 1, January-February 2021.

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