Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190132637)

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain,
sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of
Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India,
when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about this
pivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative.
This first-ever English translation of Premchand's outstanding play Karbala
(1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It reveals
Premchand's profound understanding of the communal conflict in early
twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune
with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religion

Author: Nishat Zaidi, Premchand
ISBN-10: 0190132639
ISBN-13: 9780190132637
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2023
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.67h x 5.97w x 0.69d