Anthems of Resistance

A celebration of the iconoclastic tradition of progressive Urdu poetry from the Indian subcontinent. The book documents the rise of the Progressive Writers' Association, its role in the struggle for independence and its resistance to injustice, and explores its aesthetics and politics: its international ethos, romance with modernity, engagement with feminism, link to Hindi cinema and film lyrics, and vision of a radically new world. Part history, part literary analysis and part poetic translation.