Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

Author's collected articles on various social, political, literary and women issues in Pkaistan and India published in monthly ʻAṣmat, Dehli from 1934 to 1988.

List of commonly spoken Urdu proverbs by the women of Delhi, India given with meanings.

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915-2000) was a politician, diplomat and writer of late colonial India and independent Pakistan. She was born in Calcutta and went on to earn a doctorate in Urdu literature from the University of London. She has written many books, including an autobiography and a biography of her brother, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy. In this book, she has provided details about life and culture in the world of purdah-observing upper-class Muslim women. The book discusses rituals, clothes, food, jewelry, manners and habits in this society. It is meant to acquaint Western readers with Muslim culture.

An autobiography of a Pakistani ex-diplomat and author.

Articles by prominent Pakistani and Indian journalists, etc., includes an extensive introduction by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ṣiddīqī, b. 1938.