Popular literature in Hindi and Urdu
By: compiled by Francis W. Pritchett
Publisher: Filmed by the Center for Research libraries for the South Asian Microfilm Project
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: hin; urd
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Popular literature; Hindi Folk literature; Urdu Folk literature; Hindi prose literature; Urdu prose literature; Hindi poetry; Urdu poetry; Nautanki; Hindi Folk drama
Description: Collection on microfilm of South Asian popular literature in Hindi, Urdu, and related dialects. Consists primarily of qissah (narrative "chapbook" literature) and nautanki (folk-opera) texts, as well as other indigenous folk genres in prose and verse published from the late 19th Century to 1978.
Notes: In Hindi and Urdu.