MORE THAN A WRITER
His significance is larger than a bibliography. His fiction, essays, journalism and publishing connected Urdu prose with a sustained reformist conversation about family, education and women’s lives.
Rashid-ul-Khairi is remembered among the early Urdu prose writers who helped move fictional narrative into a more recognisably modern form, while retaining a strong reformist purpose.
Across fiction, essays and journalism, he repeatedly addressed women's education, domestic life, social constraints and their role in society.
His literary work extended into publishing and editorship. Ismat, launched in Delhi in 1908, became a long-running social and literary platform associated with women's education and the Khairi family tradition.
Known as “Musavvir-e-Gham” — the portrayer of grief — Rashid-ul-Khairi’s legacy also reaches into education, social reform, editorship and institution-building.
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A concise Urdu/Hindi biographical introduction to Rashid-ul-Khairi and his literary life.
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A lecture by Dr. Moinuddin on Rashid-ul-Khairi's contribution to Urdu novel writing.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Family, genealogy, books and chronology each reveal a different part of the same literary inheritance.
Move through generations, biographies and relationships.
Explore how people, branches and literary lives connect.
Browse family publications and available digital reading.
Follow key moments from Delhi, Ismat and later generations.
LITERARY RANGE
From novels and stories to essays, history, translation and journalism, his literary world crossed genres.
GENERATIONS OF WORK
This is not an isolated author biography. It is a family story carried across generations through literature, publishing, law and public life.
01Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, editor, journalist and social reformer
↗Writer and editor
↗Novelist, playwright, translator
↗Writer, editor, women's rights advocate
↗Jurist, writer, playwright
↗BOOKS & RECORDS
Dawn records more than 90 books and booklets by Rashid-ul-Khairi. Rekhta currently catalogues 130 entries under “Books by Rashidul Khairi”, while Open Library preserves more than one hundred work records and editions. This archive starts with verified metadata and will grow as the family supplies or clears scans.
THE FAMILY BOOKSHELF
Discover works through author, year, family context and available digital access.
THE MAGAZINE
Founded in Delhi as a women's social and literary magazine, Ismat became one of the defining institutions associated with the family.
Ismat was more than a magazine title: it became a sustained platform around women’s education, social questions and literary expression.
Explore Ismat↗AN INTERACTIVE CHRONOLOGY
Travel from Delhi to Ismat, major publications and later generations.
Mohammad Abdur Rashid, later known as Rashid-ul-Khairi, was born in Delhi.
EDITORIAL LEGACY
Ismat was the best-known title, but Rashid-ul-Khairi's editorial and publishing activity extended beyond a single magazine.
DOCUMENTED SOURCES
This site brings family biographies, publications, timelines, images and research references into one bilingual archive.
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