The Great Indian Novel Was Written By A Woman And Published In Pakistan In 1959
Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire, written in Urdu and translated by the author into English in 1998, "tells a completist and syncretistic version of 2,500 years of history in modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh " beginning with the Nanda Dynasty on the brink of defeat by the founder of the Mauryan Empire (323 to 185 […]