The editors

The editors of this volume, Debashree Dattaray and Epsita Halder, are Professors in the Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction

1. The Unyielding Yen: Chughtai, Kaushal, Sehgal, and All that which Drove Indian Cinema of 1940s–50s
Madhuja Mukherjee

2. In Search of No Man’s Land: Chughtai, Manto and Ghatak
Manas Ghosh

3. Casements of Selfhood: Khakas (pen-portraits) by/of Ismat Chughtai
Fatima Rizvi and Kakul Hai

4. Between the Erotic and the Social in Ismat Chughtai’s Short Stories
Kiran Keshavamurthy

5. Socialist Realism and the Progressive Movement in Urdu Literature
Kunal Chattopadhyay

6. The Fabric of the Story: Chughtai’s Craft
Sucheta Bhattacharya

7. A Changing Mind, a Changing Body: Understanding the Journey into Female Adolescence through Terhi Lakeer and Lal Tin Ki Chhat
Urmi Sengupta

8. Codes of Censorship in Pre-Independence India: An Analysis of Chughtai and the Progressives
Debjani Chakrabarty

9. The Possibilities of a Genre: Reading the Life Writings of Ismat Chughtai and Amrita Pritam
Krishnendu Pal

Editors and Contributors