Glimpses Of Civilization And Culture In Urdu Translations Of Novels: A Review

Abstract

Every literature reflects the cultural, economic, political and social life of its age. The art of novel involves all these factors to the maximum. In that period when urdu reader was becoming more and more inquisitive about the western literature in India, a new society was shaping itself. Feudal system was degenerating and the capitalist society was taking place of the former. In this period western novels were translated, which resulted not only in the form of new values but also provided material to researchers for comparative study of societies. This research work is an effort to reach those means which will also provide a basic source for 'Urdu Literature: Pakistani Cultures and Globalization.