Sajjad Zaheer
Indian Urdu writer · India · On the map · Writers · Lived 1905 to 1973 · aged 67
Syed Sajjad Zaheer was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue, radical revolutionary and a member of the Communist Party of India. He established the All India Progressive Writers' Association after the short story collection Angarey was banned by the British Indian government.
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He then went on to study law at Lincoln's Inn in London and published the memoir London Ki Ek Raat (1935) based on his experience. He later served as the editor of several Communist Party of India newspapers. After the partition of India, he moved to the newly created Pakistan and became one of founding members of the Communist Party of Pakistan but was arrested in the alleged Rawalpindi conspiracy case and returned to India to continue working in cultural activities organized by the Communist Party of India.
