Upendranath Ashk:

NA|This is how the Hindi literary world perceives Upendranath Ashk. In this powerful biography Daisy Rockwell presents the many faces of the writer and his tumultuous life and times unfolding in the process the period the literary history of Hindi and the Hindi-Urdu divide. She also traces the development of Modern Standard Hindi participants in its evolution and Ask's role in it. About Author Daisy Rockwell is the Vice Chair at the Center for South Asia Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She received her Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1998. She writes on South Asian literature and films. Contents Acknowledgements The man and writer Ashk in combat The drama of hindi literary histories In search of influence ashk recasts the novel The Novelized self refractions of Ashk