Sajjad Zaheer
Sajjad Zaheer | |
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| Born | 5 November 1905 Lucknow, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
| Died | 13 September 1973 (aged 67) Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Occupations | Marxist ideologue, Urdu writer and poet |
| Political party | Communist Party of India |
| Spouse | Razia Sajjad Zaheer |
| Children | 4, including Nadira Babbar and Noor Zaheer |
| Father | Syed Wazir Hasan |
| Awards | Soviet Land Nehru Award |
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| Genre | Ghazal, Prose |
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Syed Sajjad Zaheer (5 November 1905 – 13 September 1973) 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 (Embers, 1932) was banned by the British Indian government. 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.