Djawan

Mirza Kazim Ali-

One of the pioneers of Urdu prose literature and was a Munshi ( Chronicler ) at Fort William College ( Calcutta ) in 1800.

Djawan was a scholar of Persian and Arabic. Herote xhaste Urdu prose and also revised the Urdu transl

ation of the Quran, which was partially undertaken by Amanat Allah and others.

In 1815 he revised the second edition of the Khirad Afruz of Hafiz al Din- whuich was an Urdu translation of Abu Fadls ” Iyar Danish ”

He also translated Shakuntala into Urdu.

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