The Garden and the Spring

Original title: باغ و بہار (Urdu)

Credits: میر امّن دہلوی (author)

Summary

The Garden and Spring (1802), written by Mir Amman at Fort William College in Calcutta, is the Urdu retelling of The Four Dervishes. A merchant prince in distress is found by a stranger, who has four wandering dervishes explain how each came to lose his throne or fortune. It is the book that established the plain, spoken Urdu of Delhi as a language of prose. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

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English translation: all 5 published chapters are available.

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Chapters (5)

  1. 1. آغاز قصے کا
  2. 2. سیر پہلے درویش کی
  3. 3. سیر دوسرے درویش کی
  4. 4. سیر تیسرے درویش کی
  5. 5. سیر چوتھے درویش کی

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