A View of Indian Muslim Life in the Short Stories of Nasira Šarma

0377582 - OÚ 2013 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Marková, Dagmar
A View of Indian Muslim Life in the Short Stories of Nasira Šarma.
Archiv orientální: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies. Roč. 80, č. 1 (2012), s. 85-103. ISSN 0044-8699
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Literature * Hindi * Muslim
Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

Nasira Sharma (b. 1948) is a Muslim lady married to a Hindu, a principled secularist, writing in Hindi. She is a prolific writer; her short stories about the contemporary life of Indian Muslims present a view of the minority community, who find it very difficult to part with traditional conservative ideals. The setting of a number of her stories appears to be a typical Muslim ghetto of a traditional type. She tackles practically all the burning problems of Indian Muslims, but without any bias against the Hindu majority community.
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