کئی چا ند تھے سرِ آسماں: تہذیبی جہات

Abstract

"Kai Chand They Sar-e-Aasman" by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi remains a trend setter and has acheved privilege of a milestone in modern Urdu fiction. The esteemed writer has presented contemporary history, decline of Indo-Islamic civilization and culture in the backdrop of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The novel itself serves as a panorama of a civilization, a kaleidoscope through which we see moving pictures of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' pageants, manners, ways of life, language and culture, as well as undercurrents of politics of Mughals' dying days. The writer, in this article, has made an attempt to project Indo-Islamic civilization as elaborated in the novel at an optimum level by Shams-ur-Rahman Faruqi in the research mode.