Two Anarkalis: Saghar Nizami's Dream Drama and the Deconstruction of the Parsi Theatre

Afroz Taj examines the text of Saghar Nizami’s play Anarkali and compares it to the earlier play of the same name by Imtiyaz Ali Taj. He describes how Saghar’s play engages Imtiyaz Ali Taj’s text while reworking the Anarkali legend in light of the utopian project of the young Indian republic. A close reading of Saghar’s text reveals several linguistic devices metaphorizing Indian linguistic and cultural diversity. After Independence and Partition in 1947, there was a new blossoming of Urdu dramatic literature in both Pakistan and India. The divergent development of these two national literatures is beyond the scope of this article, but in each country Urdu dramatists encountered different opportunities. In Pakistan, Syed Imtiyaz Ali Taj دیس سایتها