THE UNIQUE CHARACTER OF "WAZIR KHANUM" FROM "KAI CHAND THAY SAR-E-ASMAAN"

"کئی چاند تھے سرِ آسما ں"کا منفرد کردار"وزیر خانم"

Abstract

Shamsur Rehman Farooqi, the author of “Kai Chand Thay Sar Asmaan”, is a landmark figure in the Urdu world whose work, academic achievements and creative distinctions have been recognized at all levels. After a long time, a novel has come out in Urdu that has created a stir in the literary atmosphere of India and Pakistan. Can it be compared to the stir that “Umrao Jan Ada” created in its time? And this novel is written by a person whom we know first and foremost as a critic and researcher. Shamsur Rehman Farooqi has revealed himself as a novelist and researcher here is giving full support to the novelist Farooqi. It is generally said that research, criticism and creation do not go hand in hand. But the novel under consideration should be considered an exception to what has been seen as a general rule. Here we see history creatively molded into fiction, so “Kai Chand Thay Sar Asmaan” is a novel of a different kind. We can call it a document of the last years of the Mughal Empire, which was about to collapse. Shamsur-ur-Rehman Farooqui has complete mastery over details. He has presented the life of Wazir Khanum with such delicacy, delicacy and all the fine details that we get a complete picture of an entire civilization, which we can call the Indo-Muslim civilization, and its full brilliance and prosperity in its last days.... And what a role the role of Wazir Khanum is that she alone seems to be the embodiment of this civilization in her own right.                                            

Key Words:Shamsur Rehman Farooqi, “Kai Chand Thay Sar Asmaan”, "Wazir Khanum", “Umrao Jan Ada”, Mughal Empire, embodiment, civilization.