Umrao Jaan Ada
✍ Mirza Hadi Ruswa, David Matthews
📂 Library
📅 1996
🏛 Rupa
🌐 English
Umrao Jan Ada, published more than a hundred years ago, was the first novel to be written in Urdu. It tells the story of a courtesan from Lucknow, a woman of great charm who was also a brilliant poet and singer. Documented by a close friend and dictated by Umrao Jan herself, the novel weaves the cou