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Follows the family of Mir Nihal in old Delhi from 1911 to 1919, as Mughal-era culture fades under British rule. E. M. Forster helped get it published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press. Ahmed Ali later translated the Quran into English.
A landmark English novel about the decline of Muslim culture in Delhi; Ahmed Ali later moved to Pakistan.