Sajjad Zaheer
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Sajjad Zaheer (1904 – 1973) was a renowned Urdu writer, Marxist thinker and revolutionary. Educated at Oxford University, he was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India and later the following 1948, the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was also a leading figure in the Progressive Writers' Association.
A collection stories, Anagaray, which had stories by Zaheer and others was published in 1936 and was immediately banned by the British Government.
His wife was the Urdu writer Razia Sajjad Zaheer.
[edit] Further reading
- Zaheer, Sajjad (2006). The Light: The History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Sub Continent. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-547155-5.
