Khalid Alvi also known as Khalid Mustafa Alvi is a professor at the

University of Delhi The Delhi University (DU, ISO 15919, ISO: ), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate research university, research Central university (India), central university located in Delhi, India. It ...

, critic, and

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

poet. He has written twelve books and edited the English journal ''Furtherance'' and the Urdu monthly ''Shahkaar''. Some of his works have been translated into German, Persian and Uzbek Languages.

Early life and education

Khalid Alvi received his early education in his home town Chandpur, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh and then he joined the University of Delhi as a Research Scholar. During his stay at University of Delhi as a research scholar he was invited to deliver a series of lecture on Indian literature by Peshawar University, Oriental Institute Tashkent and some other Organisations in various parts of the world.

Career

After Alvi finished his MPhil, he was offered an assistant professorship at the college of Delhi University.

Writing

One of Alvi's books, ''

Angarey Angarey or Angaaray (translated alternatively as "Embers" or "Burning Coals") is a collection of nine short stories and a one act play in Urdu by Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jahan, Mahmud-uz-Zafar and Ahmed Ali first published in 1932 and general ...

'', has been the subject of controversy. The book is a collection of Urdu short stories, first published in the 1930s, and then banned in 1933. It was written by

Sajjad Zaheer Syed Sajjad Zaheer () (5 November 1905 – 13 September 1973) was a Pakistani-Indian Urdu political writer. He was a Marxist ideologue and a radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a me ...

, Rashid Jahan, Mahmud-uz-Zafar and Ahmed Ali Alvi reissued the book in 1993, but, when doing so, had to excise major portions of it. In 2014 he along with Vibha S. Chauhan translated the book in English.

Bibliography

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Hifazat e hadis
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Angarey ka tareekhi pasmenzar
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Peghambrana duaen
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvi, Khalid Academic staff of Delhi University Living people Urdu-language writers from India Alvis 1962 births People from Bijnor district