Khwaja Hasan Nizami
خواجہ حسن نظامی
Life1878–1955
Hasan Nizami was born in 1878 into a family attached to the Nizamuddin shrine and spent most of his life there. He travelled widely, in India and the Middle East, ran his own publishing house and newspapers, and wrote hundreds of books and booklets: on Sufism, on history, on daily life, and short sketches on every imaginable subject. His readers gave him the title Musawwir-e-Fitrat, "the painter of nature". He died in Delhi in 1955.
Works by Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Afsana · 1922
First two chapters freeTears of the Begums
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Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Tales of the Mutiny of 1857. Khwaja Hasan Nizami gathered the last princes and princesses of the Mughal house, turned out of the Red Fort into a Delhi in flames, and let them tell what became of them: a prince who serves as a hotel butler, princesses begging in the bazaars, a daughter of Bahadur Shah. Reissued in many editions in the author's lifetime, this is Urdu prose at its most tender. Translated here in full, with the author's 1930 afterword; the preface and the first story are free to read.
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Afsana
First two chapters freeWritings of 1857
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Khwaja Hasan Nizami
The companion to Tears of the Begums: eleven further pieces by Khwaja Hasan Nizami on the fall of Mughal Delhi that were never gathered into the famous book. The dervish Emperor Bahadur Shah handing over his relics on the night he left the Fort; a letter of blessing written in his voice to the Prince of Wales; a deaf prince who hauls bricks on a barrow and faces a magistrate; a pir who cuts grass for a living; a prince who sweeps a newspaper office; two princes in jail; the fight of the woman in green. Translated in full; the first two pieces are free to read.
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