1.

Acknowledgements

ii

2.

Introduction

1

3.

Pre-Partition Fiction

15

4.

Ahmed Ali

29

5.

The Nineteen Fifties

56

6.

The Nineteen Sixties

71

7.

Zulfikar Ghose

89

8.

The Nineteen Seventies

110

9.

Bapsi Sidhwa

125

10.

The Nineteen Eighties

136

11.

Poetry

149

12.

Drama

188

13.

Prose

200

14.

Conclusion

216

Bibliography

236

15.

Pakistani Literature in English

236

16.

Pakistani Literature: Anthologies

252

17.

Pakistani Literature: Research Aids

280

18.

Pakistani Literature: Serial Publications in Pakistan

285

Index

304