نرالا عاشق
By مرزا فدا علی خنجر لکھنوی
Cover: Portrait of an Indian Lady, traditionally called the Bibi of John Wombwell (18th century), oil on canvas by Arthur William Devis (1762-1822) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1822)
Mirza Fida Ali Khanjar's Strange Lover is a nineteenth-century Lucknow novel built on an incident from the days when Wajid Ali Shah was still crown prince. It opens with a lament for the ruined houses of Lucknow and goes on, in twelve numbered chapters, in the plain narrative manner of the city's storytellers.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.