MUZAFFAR ALI’S UMRAO JAAN: A FEMINIST INTERPRETATION

Sandeep Kaur

Abstract


In this paper I present the various issues through the character of a prostitute. How she faces oppression and rejection at various stages in society. She is paying without any fault of her own and thrown to this profession by force by her own uncle only to take revenge from her parents against whom he had lost a case. It was originally written and published in Urdu by Muhammad HadiRuswa in 1899, the distressing story of Umrao reflected the lives of courtesans in colonial India.


Keywords


Colonial; Oppression Prostitute

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