Aag Ka Darya

For the 1966 film, see Aag Ka Darya (film). For the 1953 film, see Aag Ka Dariya.

Aag Ka Darya (Urdu: آگ کا دریا; River of Fire) is a landmark historical novel written by Qurratulain Hyder providing context to the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states. It has been described as "one of the Indian Subcontinent's best known novels".[1] The novel timelines spanned more than two thousand years, starting from the time of Chandargupta Maurya in the fourth century BC to the post-Independence period in India and Pakistan. It was published in Urdu in 1959 and translated by the author into English in 1998 as River of Fire.[2] In 2019, it was reprinted by New Directions Publishing.[3]

  1. ^ "Qurratulain Hyder dies at 80". Daily Times. 22 August 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  2. ^ Sukrita Paul Kumar (2002). "Beyond Partition: turns of centuries in Aag Ka Darya". India International Centre Quarterly. 29 (2): 87–94. JSTOR 23005781.
  3. ^ "New Directions Publishing: River of Fire". New Directions. Retrieved 26 July 2019.