Rashid Jahan

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Rashid Jahan



Rashid Jahan was an Indian writer who inaugurated a new era of Urdu literature written by women. She wrote short-stories and plays and is perhaps best remembered for her involvement with the explosive Angaaray (1931), a collection of groundbreaking and unconventional short stories written by young writers in Urdu like Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali.

Her famous short-story Dilli ki Sair is a little narrative about a burqa-clad women watching life on a railway platform waiting for her husband to turn up and take her home. The story is a brief but penetrating meditation on life behind the 'veil' and the blindness of male privilege towards the experience of women behind the purdah.
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Average rating: 3.84 · 56 ratings · 10 reviews · 6 distinct works
Angaaray

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3.71 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1932 — 8 editions
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Angarey: 9 Stories and a Play

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Behind the Veil

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A Visit to Delhi

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