Bahadur Ali Husaini
Biography
Mir Bahadur Ali Husaini, usually written Bahadur Ali Husaini, was an Urdu writer of the early nineteenth century. He worked as a Mir Munshi, a senior clerk and writer, at Fort William College in Calcutta. The college was founded in 1800 to teach Indian languages and customs to officials of the East India Company, and much early Urdu prose was written there. Little is known of his birth and death. The Urdu Wikipedia article notes that he helped bring the writer Mir Amman into the college.
His best-known book, Akhlaq-e-Hindi (اخلاق ہندی), was printed in 1803 and is usually described as the first Urdu book produced on a printing press. It is a translation of the Persian book Mufarrah al-Qulub and gathers moral stories and anecdotes. Its printing is a landmark in the history of Urdu publishing, and the book was reissued in 1868 and has appeared in later editions.
The second book on this site, Nasr-e-Be-Nazir (نثر بے نظیر), is a prose retelling of Mir Hasan's celebrated romantic masnavi Sihr al-Bayan (سحر البیان), turning a story told in verse into prose. Both are early Urdu prose, and read together they show the Fort William College world, from its first printed book to a prose version of a famous verse romance.
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Books
اخلاق ہندی
by بہادر علی حسینی
Bahadur Ali Husaini's Indian Morals (1803) is a retelling in Urdu of a Persian book of fables, Mufarrih-ul-Qulub, made at Fort William College. Its animal tales and anecdotes teach right conduct, and its own title page calls it among the first Urdu books to be printed on a…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.نثر بے نظیر
by بہادر علی حسینی
Bahadur Ali Husaini's Peerless Prose (1802) retells in prose Mir Hasan's verse romance of Prince Benazir and the princess Badr-e-Munir. A fairy carries the sleeping prince to a garden where he first sees her, and the tale follows their separation, a long search and the dangers…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.