The Urdu Ghazal A Gift of India’s Composite Culture

The Urdu Ghazal presents the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture. It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal and elucidates classical ghazal forms, along with different socio-political and cultural demands of changing times, primarily how the ghazal provided new creative models to deal with literary movements like progressivism, modernism, and postmodernism.