A Village Divided: Adha Gaon

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Rahi Masoom Reza’s honest and controversial novel unfolds during the latter years of the Raj and the first decade of Independence and portrays the rival halves of a zamindar family, their loves, fights and litigations. It attacks the creation of Pakistan and explores the abolition of the zamindari system and its impact at the village level. A semi-autobiographical work set in the author’s village of Gangauli, in Ghazipur district on the fringes of Avadh, A Village Divided, previously published as The Feuding Families of Village Ganguli, is full of passion and vibrancy, a powerful record of the meeting of Muslim and Hindu cultural traditions that bound Indian society together.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rahi Masoom Reza

Dr Rahi Masoom Reza was born in 1927 in Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh. He was educated in Ghazipur and later at the Aligarh Muslim University where he took a Ph.D. A brilliant student of Urdu, Hindi and Sanskrit, Dr Reza subsequently taught at the AMU and was a proponent of Urdu in the Devanagari script. He later moved to Bombay and became a successful screenplay writer and wrote the screenplays and dialogue for over 300 films including B.R. Chopra’s television series, Mahabharat. Dr Reza died on 15 March 1992 in Bombay.

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Title
A Village Divided: Adha Gaon
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
0143029835
Length
xx+332p., 23cm.
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