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  1. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullCensorship, “Obscenity” and Courtroom Drama: Reading Ismat ...

    Feb 14, 2020 · In December 1944, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), a prolific Urdu writer from the Indian subcontinent, received a summons to appear in the Lahore High Court for her short story “Lihaaf.”1 She was summo...

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  2. www.thejuggernaut.com › ismat-chughtai-lihaaf“Lihaaf”: Ismat Chughtai’s “Obscenity” - The Juggernaut

    Jun 10, 2024 · Colonial authorities had accused her story “Lihaaf” (The Quilt) of obscenity, and summoned her to the Lahore High Court. Chughtai wrote extensively on female sexuality, femininity, and class conflict.

  3. dhaaramagazine.in › 2022/06/18 › the-trial-of-ismatThe Trial of Ismat Chugtai’s ‘Lihaaf’: A Case of Obscenity ...

    Jun 18, 2022 · Ismat Chugtai is known for her revolutionary and feminist writings; a case in point being her short story ‘Lihaaf’, published in 1942 in the Urdu magazine ‘ ‘ Adab-e-Latif’, and charged as being obscene.

  4. daakvaak.com › postcards › humour-and-defiance-ismatHumour and Defiance: Ismat Chughtai’s Essay, The Lihaf Trial

    Jun 9, 2024 · Both Chughtai and Manto had come under fire for their stories “ Lihaf” and “ Bu” respectively, and were summoned to court in Lahore. Chughtai recorded this experience in great detail in an essay titled simply “ The Lihaf Trial”.

  5. orinam.net › ismat-chughtais-lihaf-a-short-noteIsmat Chughtai’s Lihaf: A Short Note - orinam

    Oct 20, 2013 · In the November of 1946, summoned for the second hearing by the courts of the colonial Indian State on the charges of obscenity for her Urdu short-story Lihaf (‘The Quilt’), the writer Ismat Chughtai reaches Lahore. It had been about four years since Lihaf had been published in the Urdu journal Adab-e-Lateef.

  6. indianexpress.com › article › lifestyleDecoding the ‘feminist’ in Ismat Chughtai’s most (in)famous ...

    Aug 21, 2018 · Ismat Chughtai's Lihaaf, indisputably, remains one of her most (in)famous works and the controversy it sparked hung like a perceptible shadow over everything Chughtai wrote after that. The story was charged with obscenity and she was summoned to Lahore to defend it.

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  8. feminisminindia.com › remembering-ismat-chughtaiIsmat Chughtai: Remembering A Feminist Literary Icon

    It was quite ironic that the kind of attitude of the male dominated society that Chughtai used to scoff at, also became the reason for her to be summoned by the court on the charges of alleged ‘obscenity’ in her short story ‘Lihaf‘. When questioned about ‘obscenity’ in her stories in an interview, she said