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Ahmed Ali

Died in 1994

Ahmed Ali was born on 1 July 1910 in Delhi and studied at Aligarh and then at Lucknow. In 1932 he was one of the authors of a collection of Urdu short stories that the British banned at once, and he took part in founding the Progressive Writers' Association of India. A professor at several universities, he was teaching in China at the time of the partition; prevented from returning to Delhi, he reached Karachi in 1948 and became a diplomat of Pakistan. He died in Karachi on 14 January 1994.

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