FURTHER BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL 
ENGLISH 

 
SOME ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS (AND TRANSCREATIONS)
 

Ahmad, Aijaz, ed. Ghazals of Ghalib. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. Contains translations by: W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, William Stafford, David Ray, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Mark Strand, William Hunt. 

Ahmed Ali, The Golden Tradition: An Anthology of Urdu Poetry; selected, translated, and with an introduction by Ahmed Ali. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.

Bandhopadhyay, Pranab. Hundred Ghazals of Mirza Ghalib. Calcutta: United Writers, 1975. [Actually it contains translations of a hundred verses, not ghazals.]

Bly, Robert, and Sunil Dutta, trans. and eds. The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1999.

Ghalib Institute, Whispers of the Angel; Selections from Fourteen English Translations of Ghalib. New Delhi: Ghalib Academy, 1969.

Husain, Yusuf, trans., Urdu Ghazals of Ghalib. New Delhi: Ghalib Institute, 1977.

Johari, Prema. Renderings from Ghalib. New Delhi: Ghalib Institute, 1996.

Joshi, Umesh. Ashaar of Gaalib and 25 Masters. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 1995.

Kanda, K. C. Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal From the 17th to the 20th Century. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1990.

Kaul, J. L. Interpretations of Ghalib. Delhi: Atma Ram & Sons, 1957.

Lal, P. Ghalib's Love Poems Transcreated from Urdu by P. Lal. Calcutta: Writer's Workshop, 1971. (2nd ed. 1971)

Mahmood, Khwaja Tariq. Ghalib: Rhymed Translations of Selected Ghazals. Lahore: Author, 1995.

Mirza, Yaqub. Translation of the Selected Verses of Ghalib's Urdu Ghazals. New Delhi: Ghalib Institute, 1992.

Misra, Satya Deo. Ghalib's Passion Flower: Consuming, Flower-Fresh, Heady; in the Poet's own view, and S. D. Misra's. [No information about date or place of publication.]

Russell, Ralph. The Famous Ghalib. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2000.

Russell, Ralph. Hidden in the Lute: An Anthology of Two Centuries of Urdu Literature. London: Carcanet, 1995.
 

GENERAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH
 

Joshi, Umesh. Galib: the Man and his Couplets. New Delhi: Author, 1998.

Kamal, Daud. Ghalib: Reverberations. Karachi: Author, 1970.

Latif, Sayyid Abdul. Ghalib: a Critical Appreciation of his Life & Urdu Poetry. Hyderabad: Chandrakanth Press, 1929.

Lakhanpal, P. L. Ghalib: the Man and his Verse. Delhi: International Books, 1960.

Mahmud, Sayyid Fayyaz. Ghalib: A Critical Introduction. Lahore: Punjab University, 1969.

Memon, Muhammad Umar. Studies in the Urdu Gazal and Prose Fiction. Madison: South Asian Studies Publication Series, 1979. Relevant contributors: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Gilani Kamran, Frances Khan, Bruce B. Lawrence, Peter L. Manuel, C. M. Naim, Bruce R. Pray, Annemarie Schimmel, Moazzam Siddiqi.

Mujeeb, M. Makers of Indian Literature: Ghalib. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1969.

Prigarina, Natalia. Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Russell, Ralph, ed. Ghalib: the Poet and his Age. Cambridge: George Allen & Unwin, 1972. Contributors: R. Russell, Percival Spear, P. Hardy, A. Bausani.

Saran, Saraswati. Mirza Ghalib: the Poet of Poets. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1972.

Schimmel, Annemarie. A Dance of Sparks: Imagery of Fire in Ghalib's Poetry. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1979. 

Varma, Pavan K. Ghalib: the Man, the Times. New Delhi: Viking, 1989.

TO BE CONTINUED.
 

SELECTED ARTICLES IN ENGLISH

Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman. “Conventions of Love, Love of Conventions: Urdu Love Poetry in the Eighteenth Century.” Annual of Urdu Studies 14 (1999), pp. 3-32.

Petievich, Carla. 'Dakani's Radha-Krishna Imagery and Canon Formation in Urdu.' In The Banyan Tree: Essays on Early Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, ed. by Mariola Offredi (New Delhi: Manohar, 2000), vol. 1, pp. 113-128.

TO BE CONTINUED.
 

OTHER HELPFUL TEXTS IN ENGLISH

Ali, A. Yusuf. The Holy Qur'an; Text, Translation and Commentary. Lahore, 1934.

TO BE CONTINUED.
 

 

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