长篇小说
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长篇小说 · 1936
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گئودان
蒙西·普列姆昌德
普列姆昌德最后一部完成的长篇小说（1936年），也是描写印度乡村生活最伟大的小说。农民何利拥有五比加（印度土地面积单位）土地，有一个嘴尖舌利却忠心耿耿的妻子塔妮雅，还背着一座山一样的债，他只有一个心愿：在自家门口拴上一头母牛。围绕着这个小小的希望，普列姆昌德描绘了整个社会：热衷戏剧、忧心忡忡的地主拉伊老爷，村里的债主和祭司，还有勒克瑙城里的厂主、医生、主笔和哲学家。小说温情、诙谐而又毫不留情，是印度斯坦现实主义的经典。乌尔都语原文附对照英译；前两章可免费阅读。
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长篇小说 · 1888
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ابن الوقت
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德1888年的喜剧小说。1857年起义期间，伊本·瓦克特——一位莫卧儿公主的管家、精通阿拉伯语和波斯语的学者——藏匿了一个受伤的英国人诺布尔先生。德里陷落后，他得到的报偿是跻身英国人的社交圈，于是一头扎了进去：一座洋房，一张摆着刀叉的餐桌，一顶礼帽，一条狗，还有一个新的信念——统治者在一切方面都胜过被统治者。他的表兄胡贾特·伊斯兰被派来让他回心转意。这部作品写于赛义德爵士的时代，是乌尔都语中第一部讽刺殖民模仿的伟大作品，至今仍十分好笑。乌尔都语原文与英译对照；前两章可免费阅读。
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长篇小说 · 1931
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غبن
蒙西·普列姆昌德
普列姆昌德1931年的小说。乡村姑娘贾尔帕从小只有一个心愿：一条旃檀项链——那是她在秋千旁一个货郎的箱子里见过的金项链。她的丈夫罗摩纳特是阿拉哈巴德市政局的书记，爱讲排场，为了让她戴上首饰，他借债、撒谎，最后挪用了公款。接下来的故事里有债务、出逃、警方的告密者，还有一个女人对自身力量的逐步发现。这是乌尔都语和印地语文学中最伟大的社会小说之一。乌尔都语原文与英译对照；前两章可免费阅读。
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长篇小说
前两章免费Ayama: The Widows
ایامیٰ
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德 · 关于Novel
Deputy Nazir Ahmad's Ayama ("The Widows", 1891) is the classic Urdu novel on the remarriage of widows. Azadi Begam, a girl of a good Delhi family raised between a sceptical father and a devout mother, marries the young scholar Maulvi Mustajab, weans him from the narrow life of a mosque maulvi, and is left a young, childless widow when he dies in the service of Bhopal. Held back by custom from marrying again, she lives through mourning, sermons on patience, loneliness, thoughts of suicide and the schemes of go-betweens, and in her last illness examines her life in a long dialogue with herself. On her deathbed she calls the men of her family and neighbourhood together and, from behind the curtain, makes them her bequest: a speech on the sufferings of widows and on the Qur'anic command to see them married. A key text for the Urdu novel, Muslim social reform, women's lives and the widow-remarriage debate in nineteenth-century India. Complete Urdu text from the 1891 first edition, with the author's footnotes, a facing English translation, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Nazir Ahmad, Ayama, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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前两章免费Banat-un-Nash: The Daughters of the Bier
بنات النعش
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德 · 关于Novel
Deputy Nazir Ahmad's Banat-un-Nash (c. 1872), the second part of his Mirat-ul-Uroos (1869), is one of the first Urdu books written to give girls a modern education. Asghari, the capable heroine of the earlier book, now keeps a school for girls in her Delhi home, and into it comes Husn Ara, the spoilt and bad-tempered daughter of a rich household. Through talk, example and patience rather than punishment, Asghari and her sister-in-law Mahmuda cure her of pride, laziness and superstition, while the girls learn arithmetic, gravity, the shape of the earth, the geography of Arabia, astronomy and the cause of eclipses, and hear the tale of the cruel nobleman Masih-ul-Mulk, a long story of women's superstitions, and the life of an English family. It ends with Husn Ara's moving farewell to the school before her marriage. A key text for the Urdu novel, women's education and reform in nineteenth-century India, and the daily life and speech of Delhi households after 1857. Complete Urdu text from a 1950 Delhi reprint, with the author's footnotes, a facing English translation, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Nazir Ahmad, Banat-un-Nash, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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前两章免费Mina Bazar (The Ladies' Fair of Shah Jahan)
مینا بازار
Abdul Halim Sharar
A historical romance by Abdul Halim Sharar (1860-1926) of Lucknow, set at the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. At the Empress Mumtaz Mahal's wish a fair is built inside the palace where the women of Delhi keep shops of their own, and the scholars argue over whether it breaks the rules of parda. On the opening day the Emperor is charmed by Gulrukh Begum, wife of his general Jamal Khan, who sells him a "diamond" made of sugar-candy. Her three days as the Empress's guest bring a jealous husband's divorce, a false friend's scheming and the Emperor's wrath, until a sentence of death under an elephant's foot hangs on the heroine's answer. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Abdul Halim Sharar, Mina Bazar, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/mina-bazar. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Fasana-e-Mubtala (The Tale of Mubtala): A Novel of Two Wives
فسانۂ مبتلا
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德
Delhi, in the 1880s. Mubtala, spoilt only son of a well-to-do family, lives for beauty: married young to his plain, proud cousin Ghairat Begum, he despises her and spends his days with dancing girls and flatterers. His pious uncle returns from the hajj to set the house in order, his friend Arif argues with him about beauty and about what the Quran really allows, and Mubtala goes his own way: he marries Hariyali, a courtesan from Lucknow, and smuggles her into the house as a housekeeper. What follows is the comic and terrible story of two co-wives under one roof, the spying and cursing, a pot of poisoned milk, a police case fixed by Ghairat Begum's brother, a clever and unscrupulous pleader, and the slow ruin of a household and of Mubtala himself. Deputy Nazir Ahmad (1831-1912), the first Urdu novelist and author of Mirat-ul-Uroos, wrote it in 1885 against 'the freedom of men in the matter of marriage'. Complete Urdu text (Urdu Wikisource, checked against a Shamsi Press, Delhi printing, archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.435949, with the author's preface and prelude transcribed from the scan) with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Deputy Nazir Ahmad, Fasana-e-Mubtala, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/fasana-e-mubtala. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Fasana-e-Azad (The Tale of Azad): Selected Chapters
فسانۂ آزاد (انتخاب)
Ratan Nath Sarshar
The opening of Ratan Nath Sarshar's great comic panorama of nineteenth-century Lucknow (1878–79), serialised in Avadh Akhbar: Sarshar's preface and the first fifteen episodes, in which the clever, idle Mian Azad wanders through the city's houses, weddings, Muharram processions, poets' gatherings and salons. Ornate rhymed prose, Persian verse and bazaar slang in a book that stands between the dastan and the modern novel, taught on Urdu courses in Pakistan and India. Urdu text newly transcribed from the 1986 Taraqqi Urdu Bureau edition, with an English translation; the first two chapters are free. How to cite: Sarshar, Fasana-e-Azad (selection), tr. Urdu in Translation (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/fasana-e-azad
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长篇小说 · 1874
前两章免费Majalis-un-Nissa (Assemblies of Women)
مجالس النساء
Altaf Husain Hali
Written in 1874 by the poet and reformer Altaf Husain Hali (1837–1914), Majalis-un-Nissa is one of the first Urdu prose narratives set entirely in the home, and a founding text of the debate on women's education in South Asia. In nine evening gatherings an elderly governess, Atu-ji, answers the doubts of the young women of a Delhi household by telling the life of Zubaida Khatun: how her mother taught her to read, keep accounts and run a house; how, widowed young, she raised her son Sayyid Abbas herself; and how he travelled from Delhi to Bombay, Mecca and Istanbul. Rich in the everyday speech of Delhi women, with Hali's own glosses. Complete Urdu text from the Hali Press edition (Panipat, 1924; publisher's matter omitted), with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Hali, Majalis-un-Nissa, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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长篇小说 · 1899
前两章免费Firdaus-e-Bareen (The Highest Paradise)
فردوسِ بریں
Abdul Halim Sharar
Abdul Halim Sharar's best-known historical novel (1899), set in the 1250s in the mountains south of the Caspian. Husain and Zamurrud, a young couple on the road, fall into the hands of the Batinis of Alamut, whose leaders have built a hidden garden "paradise" to deceive their followers and send them out to kill. Sharar follows Husain as he is drawn in and used, until the order falls to Hulagu Khan's Mongols. Adventure, romance and history in one of the founding works of the Urdu novel, taught on university Urdu courses in Pakistan and India. Complete Urdu text with a new English translation, paragraph by paragraph; the first two chapters are free to read. How to cite: Sharar, Firdaus-e-Bareen, tr. Urdu in Translation (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/firdaus-e-bareen
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长篇小说 · 1869
前两章免费Mirat-ul-Uroos (The Bride's Mirror)
مراۃ العروس
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德 · 关于Women's education and household management
Nazir Ahmad's 1869 novel of two Delhi sisters: Akbari, spoilt and quarrelsome, whose household falls into ruin, and Asghari, educated and sensible, who sets her husband's family in order, runs a school for girls, and arranges a brilliant match for her sister-in-law. Often called the first Urdu novel.
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长篇小说 · 1899
前两章免费乌姆拉奥·詹·阿达
امراؤ جان ادا
米尔扎·穆罕默德·哈迪·鲁斯瓦
米尔扎·哈迪·鲁斯瓦1899年的小说，乌尔都语小说中最负盛名的一部。阿米兰幼年时从法扎巴德家中被拐走，卖进勒克瑙的一家艺妓院，长大后成为歌者、舞者和诗人乌姆拉奥·詹，笔名“阿达”。晚年在一次诗会之后，她答应向鲁斯瓦讲述自己的一生：她所受的训练、她的情人与恩主、强盗法伊兹·阿里、1857年的动乱，以及她回到当年被拐走的那座城。这是十九世纪勒克瑙已经消逝的文化的一幅画像，由它自己的声音讲出。乌尔都语原文附译文；前两章免费阅读。
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长篇小说 · 1874
前两章免费纳苏赫的忏悔
توبۃ النصوح
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德
纳齐尔·艾哈迈德1874年的小说。德里霍乱流行期间，体面、富足而漫不经心的穆斯林绅士纳苏赫病倒了，在热病的梦中看见亡父在真主面前受审。他醒来后变了一个人，决心整顿全家；妻子法赫米达愿意同他一道，年幼的孩子们也跟着走，可是已经成年的长子卡利姆——一个纨绔子弟、诗人和才子——却一概不肯接受。这是一出关于父与子、信仰与时尚的家庭剧，出自《伊本·瓦克特》和《新娘的镜子》的作者之手，是乌尔都语小说的奠基之作之一。乌尔都语原文与英译对照；前两章可免费阅读。
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