Mirza Hadi Ruswa

Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa was born in Lucknow around 1857, the year in which the kingdom of Awadh collapsed. He taught in schools of the city, including the Christian College, then left teaching for chemistry, psychology and logic. A poet, novelist and author of some twenty volumes on Shia religion, philosophy and astronomy, he headed the literary section of the All India Shia Conference. Having left for Hyderabad in 1917, he worked at the translation bureau of Osmania University and died in that city, of typhoid, on 21 October 1931.

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• NovelUmrao Jan Adaامراؤ جان اداMirza Hadi Ruswa · 1899Literature