Karbala: A Historical Play By Premchand

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India, when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about this pivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative. This first-ever English translation of Premchand's outstanding play Karbala (1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It reveals Premchand's profound understanding of the communal conflict in early twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions.

• | Author: Nishat Zaidi
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 241 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190132639
• | ISBN-13: 9780190132637