The author, Farrukh Jamal Malihabadi, was born after Partition, and in the book does not make any scholarly claims about being a man of letters, calling himself a “student of literature” rather than a “literary personality.” He reiterates this disclaimer at the end of the book. There are also references of other locations - Lucknow, Aligarh, St Petersburg College, Agra, Hyderabad Deccan, Calcutta, Akbarabad and Bombay - where Josh went in pursuit of education as well as to make a living. WRITTEN by the grandson of the legendary Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi, Josh Malihabadi: Malihabad sey Islamabad Tak is a biographical narrative describing life in the city of Malihabad, 13 miles from Lucknow, where Josh was born in an affluent family, circa 1895.
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