About “Mirat-ul-Uroos”
Mirat-ul-Uroos is an Urdu language novel written by Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, an Indian author who lived from 1830 to 1912. It was published in 1869 and addresses themes that promote female education in Muslim and Indian society. The novel is credited with inspiring a genre of fictional works that encouraged female literacy in the Indian subcontinent, influencing languages such as Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Kashmiri. Within a few years of its publication, the book sold over 100,000 copies. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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