Mapping Grief: A Feminist Phenomenology of Firdous Azmat Siddiqui’s Urdu Novel Rind
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Dr. Adfer Shah reviews Rind(Urdu Novel) by Firdous Azmat Siddiqui (Arshia Publications, 2025), observing how it is Partition literature with its unique ground.
- pp [263].
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The literature of Partition has expanded considerably over the past three decades, moving beyond the canonical texts of the 1950s and 1960s to include voices previously marginalized in both historiography and fiction. Yet even within this broadened archive, certain experiences and micro social realities remain underexplored. The trauma endured by upper-class Muslim women who chose exile over death, the psychic toll of upholding tahzeeb (cultural refinement and traditional ethos) amid catastrophic violence, and the transgressive survival strategies that defied normative femininity, etc, still linger at the periphery of scholarly and literary attention. Firdous Azmat Siddiqui’s Rind, an Urdu novel comprising of thirteen compelling chapters published by Arshia Publications (New Delhi), intervenes precisely at this overlooked juncture.
