Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
1833–1912
Biography
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (1833–1912), known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu novelist, religious reformer, orator and scholar. He was born in a village near Bijnor, in what is now Uttar Pradesh, and some sources give 1831 or 1836 as his birth year instead of 1833. He held a post in the British Indian administration, and the title Deputy came from that work. He remained a prolific writer until his death in 1912.
He wrote more than thirty books, covering law, logic, ethics and language as well as fiction, and he translated the Quran into Urdu. His novels, including Mirat-ul-Uroos, Taubat-un-Nasuh and Ibn-ul-Waqt, are counted among the first substantial Urdu novels. They were written to teach moral and domestic lessons to a growing reading public, and they helped establish the novel as a serious vehicle for ideas in Urdu.
On this site, his novel Fasana-e-Mubtala (فسانہء مبتلا) is one of the works credited to him. It can be read alongside his better-known novels to see the range of his fiction, and it is a good starting point for readers who come to Urdu prose through him.
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Books
فسانہء مبتلا
by ڈپٹی نذیر احمد
Deputy Nazir Ahmad's novel of 1885 follows Mubtila, a young Delhi man whose wish for a second wife and a freer life brings ruin on his household. Written as a warning against polygamy and idleness, it tells the story of one family over fifty-four short chapters, in plain Urdu…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.