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Ismat Chughtai

Indian writer (1911-1991)

  • Fame52.6
  • Momentum0.6
  • Wikipedia5.9K
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Lived 1911–1991, aged 80India
IndiaIndiaWritersWriter / Author
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    23 languages
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  • Era
    1911–1991
    Aged 80
  • Awards
    2
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-07-18

Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

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