The biographical documentary elements are visible in the Urdu novels from the very beginning of novel like English.The real life colors gives the novel the color of biographical documentation.Most ofthe critics agree that the novel Nishtar (1790-91 in Hindi Persian language)lays the initial tracesof Urdu novel writing.Later on translated in Urdu in 1894.Another important name in the biographical documentary novel tradition is Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa(1857-1931).His novels Umrao Jan Ada(1899), Zat Sharif(1900),and Sharifzada(1900)are novels with biographical elements and are derived from real life. From Raswa to the twenty-first century, we see biographical documentary elements in important novelists like Shamsur Rahman Farooqi, Ahsan Farooqi,Ahmed Bashir,Intzar Hussain etc. In the tradition of Urdu novel, not only biographical documentation is found, but there are also some novels in which other colors of documentation are visible. Such as historical, religious, scientific, social facts, for the discovery of which the author has to go through research gorges.

Refrences:

1.    Dr. Ahsan Farooqi,Novel kia hay, (Karachi: Alkitab,1965), P.133

2.    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/306732/A-Journal-of-the-Plague -Year

3.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild

4.    Interview, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/ondemand/hindi/meta/ dps/2007/08/070821_qurratul_ain_haider?bgc=003399&lang=hi&nbram=1&nbwm=1&ms3=2&size=au

5.    Syed Muhammad Hassan Shah,Nashtar,Trans. bySajad Hussain Anjum Kasmandvi, (Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab,1963), p. 6

6.    Ibid, p. 8

7.    Ishrat Rehmani, (Ed.),Nashtar, (Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab,1963), p. 1

8.    IqtadarAalam Khan,Urdu main Novel Nigari ka Aaghaz:AikNayaZawiyah-e-Nigah, in Fikr-o-Nazar, Issue January, 1965, Aligarh,Aligarh Muslim University, p. 122

9.    ZahidaHina,Qurat-ul-Ain Haider,Esa Kahan Say La’in, in Qurat-ul-Ain: Urdu Fiction kayTanazur main, Ed. by JameeluddinAali& Others, (Karachi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan,2009), p. 472

10.  Saleem Akhtar, Introduction in Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza HadiRuswa,(Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications,2003), p. 4

11.  Zaheer Fatehpuri, Introduction in Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza HadiRuswa,(Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab, 1999), p. 10

12.  Dr. Sohail Bukhari,Urdu Novel Nigari,(Lahore: Maktaba-e-Jadeed,1960), p.80

13.  Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa,Zaat-e-Shareef(Delhi: AnjumanTaraqqi-e- Urdu, N. D.), p. 4

14.  Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa,Preamble in Shareef Zadain Majmua Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa, (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications,2000), p.519 

15.  Dr. Sohail Bukhari,Urdu Novel Nigari, p.78

16.  Ali AbassHusani,Urdu Novel kiTareekh-o-Tanqeed, (Aligarh: Educational Book House, 1987), p.278

17.  Dr. Anwar Sadeed, Urdu AdabkimukhtasirTareekh, (Dehli: Aalami Media Private Limited, 2014), p.568

18.  Dr. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan,Azadi kaybaad Urdu Novel, (Karachi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu,2008), p.305, 2nd Ed.

Bibliography

1.    Akhtar, Saleem, Introduction in Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza HadiRuswa,Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications,2003

2.    Bukhari, Sohail, Dr.,Urdu Novel Nigari, Lahore: Maktaba-e-Jadeed,1960

3.    Farooqi, Ahsan, Dr.,Novel kia hay, Karachi: Alkitab,1965

4.    Fatehpuri, Zaheer, Introduction in Umrao Jan Ada by Mirza HadiRuswa,Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab, 1999

5.    Hina, Zahida,Qurat-ul-Ain Haider:Esa Kahan Say La’in, in Qurat-ul-Ain: Urdu Fiction kay Tanazur main, Ed. by JameeluddinAali& Others, Karachi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan,2009

6.    Husani, Ali Abass,Urdu Novel kiTareekh-o-Tanqeed, Aligarh: Educational Book House, 1987

7.    Khan, Mumtaz Ahmed, Dr.,Azadi kay baad Urdu Novel, Karachi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu,2008, 2nd Ed.

8.    Rehmani, Ishrat, (Ed.),Nashtar, Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab,1963

9.      Ruswa, Muhammad Hadi, Mirza, Zaat-e-Shareef, Delhi: AnjumanTaraqqi-e- Urdu, N. D.

10.  ____,Preamble, in Shareef Zada,in Majmua Mirza Muhammad HadiRuswa, Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications,2000

11.  Shah, Syed Muhammad Hassan,Nashtar,Trans. bySajad Hussain Anjum Kasmandvi, Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab,1963

12.  Sadeed, Anwar, Dr.,Urdu AdabkimukhtasirTareekh, Dehli: Aalami Media Private Limited, 2014

Magazines

1.    Fikr-o-Nazar, Issue January, 1965, Aligarh,Aligarh Muslim University.

Websites

1.    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/306732/A-Journal-of-the-Plague -Year

2.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild

3.    Interview, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/ondemand/hindi/meta/ dps/2007/08/070821_qurratul_ain_haider?bgc=003399&lang=hi&nbram=1&nbwm=1&ms3=2&size=au

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