Chandni Begum: a novel

978-93-85606-11-3

Women Unlimited, 2017

Language: English

248+xx pages

5.5"x8.5"

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Centred around two prominent Lucknow families, the novel closes in on the lives and struggles of Qambar, a romantic revolutionary, and the three women drawn to him—Bela, the daughter of a mirasi-bhand couple, desperate to break away from her tainted ‘legacy’; Safia, the polio-stricken daughter of the Raja of Teen Katori, an independent ‘educationist’ dealing with the crushing rejection of her childhood betrothed and the demons that haunt her in its wake; and the eponymous heroine, Chandni Begum, destitute survivor of a once powerful landed family, looking for a way to get by respectably. A rivetting tale, liberally sprinkled with entertaining characters and biting political and social comment.

 

Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder is one of Urdu’s greatest fiction writers. Her published work consists of four collections of short stories, five novels and several novellas. She was a journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster with BBC, as well as Producer Emeritus, AIR, and copywriter for an advertising agency. Among her many awards and honours are the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Bharatiya Jnanpith, and the Padma Bhushan.

Saleem Kidwai

Saleem Kidwai is a medieval historian, scholar and translator. He has co-edited Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia; has translated Qurratulain Hyder’s Ship of Sorrows, the singer Malika Pukhraj's autobiography, Song Sung True (2004) and Mirror of Wonders and Other Tales (2012), a collection of short stories by Syed Rafiq Hussain.