Reading the Margins as Central: Representations of domestic servants in Nazir Ahmed and Ismat Chughtai's literary works.

This paper revisits the Urdu literary works of Deputy Nazir Ahmed and Ismat Chughtai to unravel the changing ways in which they depicted the servants and servant-like characters in their description of the north Indian middle-class urban Muslim household in the late 19th and first half of the twenti...

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Published in:	South Asian History & Culture Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 514 - 528
Main Author:	Bashir, Jamal Ali
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2022
Subjects:	India Ahmad, Nazir Cughtai, Ismat, 1915-1991 Household employees Master & servant Urdu literature Urdu novelists
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