Karbala A Historical Play by Premchand

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English | ISBN: 0190132639 | 2023 | 241 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussain,

sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of
Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India,
when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about this
pivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative.
This first-ever English translation of Premchand’s outstanding play Karbala
(1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It reveals
Premchand’s profound understanding of the communal conflict in early
twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune
with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions.
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