This teaching tool is based on Savera (Dawn), a left-wing literary periodical published quarterly on the Indian subcontinent from 1946 onward under the leadership of the Progressive Writers’ Movement. The tool foregrounds the genealogy of “critical realism,” a revolutionary form of Urdu realism that perpetuated the movement’s aim of bringing about social transformation in a former colony by critiquing India’s indigenous conceptions of class, gender, nationalism, language, and religion… read more
“Critical Realisms” in Savera: Mapping an Evolution of Progressive Urdu Literature in Post-partition India