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Exposed the oppression against Muslim women
- Because they exposed the oppression against Muslim women and promoted resistance against the colonial state, the text was banned in March 1933 by the British government.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2024.2304447
The book created controversy in the Muslim community of the British India upon its release and was met with outrage from both the religious and civil authorities. Newspapers and journals wrote angry editorials denouncing the book.
May 3, 2024 · Through the reading of Angarey, the text that was hailed as “an act of defiance against all traditional norms”1, this article explores how censorship laws in colonial India reduced the idea of the ...
Jun 15, 2014 · On 15 March 1933, the book was banned by the government of the United Provinces under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, which allowed the government to ban books that had a ‘deliberate and...
Sep 21, 2022 · Before Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses', a 1932 Urdu anthology 'Angarey' had instigated similar angst in India, making the uproar over later banned books pale in comparison considering...
May 9, 2014 · The English translation of “Angarey”, a collection of nine stories and a play written in Urdu in 1932, brings to fore issues that are still pertinent
Mar 30, 2020 · Rashid Jahan ‘declared war’ on conservative Muslim society through an explosive anthology she co-authored, titled Angarey. It may have earned her death threats but Rashid became an inspiration for generations of women writers to come.
May 23, 2014 · Controversy seems to haunt the banned collection of Urdu short stories, “Angarey”, as two versions of its English translation have hit the stands one after the other India World
