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This is a list of those dramatists who wrote their work in the [[Urdu]] language. Despite the historical presence of [[Sanskrit]] dramas, the history of Urdu drama is begins only with British influences on Urdu in the 19th century. Today Urdu drama has been developed as a separate branch of [[Urdu literature]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Urdu |first1=Drama |title=Collection of Urdu dramas |url=https://www.rekhta.org/search/ebooks?q=%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%20%DA%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%81&lang=ur |website=Rekhta}}</ref>
== List ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Era !! Nationality!! Works
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| [[Agha Hasan Amanat]] ||1915–1858 || British India|| Andar Sabha (1853)
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|[[Rawnaq Banarasi]] || 1882||British India || Insaf Mahmud Shah
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| [[Mia Hussaini (Pen name Zareef)]]|| || British India|| Asmat, Khuda Dost, Chand Bibi, Bulbul
|-
| [[Munshi Banayak Parshad Talib Banarasi]] || death || British India||
|-
| [[Syed Mehdi Hasan]] Pen name; Ahsan Lakhnuvi)|| || British India|| Waqiaat Anees, Bhool Bhalian, Chalta Purza
|-
| [[Betab Dehluvi]]|| || British India|| Qatal e Nazeer, Maha Bharat,
|-
| [[Agha Hashar Kashmiri]]|| 1879 – 28 April 1935|| British India|| Shaheed Naz, Mureed Shak, Turkey Hur
|-
| [[Ghulam Hussain Zareef]]|| 1889|| British India|| Anjam Sakhawat
|-
| [[Muhammad Abdul Waheed Qais]]|| || British India|| Jalsa Paristan
|-
| [[Faqir Muhammad Taigh]]|| || British India|| Anjam e Ulfat e wa Benazir
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| [[Feroz Shah Khan]]|| || British India||
|-
| [[Ahmad Hassan Wafar]]|| || British India|| Bulbul e Bemar
|-
| [[Mir Karamatullah]]|| || British India||
|-
| [[Mir Wajidullah]]|| || British India||
|-
| [[Amrao Ali]]|| || British India|| Albert Bill (first Political Urdu Drama), Jehangir (Translation of Hemlat)
|-
| [[Munshi Ghulam ALi]]|| || British India|| Taeed Yazdani
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| [[Munshi Muhammad Ibrahim]]|| || British India|| Aatishi Nag
|-
| [[Munshi Rahmat Ali]]|| || British India|| Dard e Jigar
|-
| [[Dawarka Parshad Ufaq]]|| || British India|| Ram Natak
|-
| [[Mirza Abbas]]|| || British India|| Noor Jahan wa Shahi Farman
|-
| [[Agha Shair Dehluvi]]|| || British India|| Hur o Jannat
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| [[Lala Khishan Chand]]|| || British India||
|-
| [[Lala Knwar Seen]] || || British India|| Brhman Natak
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| [[Hakim Ahmad Shuja]]|| 1893 – 1969|| Pakistan|| Bap ka Gunah, Bharat ka lal
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| [[Syed Imtiaz Ali]]|| || British India|| Anar Kali, Dulhan
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| [[Syed Dilawar Ali Shah]]|| || British India|| Punjab MAil
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| [[Khan Ahmad Hussain]]|| || British India|| Husan Ka Bazar
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| [[Radhy Sham]]|| || British India||
|-
| [[Jamiluddin Aali]] || 1925 – 23 November 2015|| Pakistan||
|-
| [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]] || 1915 – 1984 || Indian||
|-
| [[Habib Tanvir]] || 1923 – 8 June 2009|| India||
|-
| [[Manju Qamaraidullāhī]] || 1908–1983|| India||
|-
| [[Shamim Hanfi]] || 1938–2021 || India||
|-
| [[Sajjad Zaheer]] || 1899 – 13 September 1973 || Pakistan||
|-
| [[Munnu Bhai]] || 1933-2008|| Pakistan||
|-
| [[Muhammad Mansha Yaad]] || || Pakistan||
|-
| [[Anwar Maqsood]] || 1935|| Pakistan||
|-
| [[Bano Qudsia]] || 1928 – 4 February 2017|| Pakistan||
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| [[Ashfaq Ahmed]] || 1925 – 7 September 2004|| Pakistan||
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| [[Zahida Hina]] || 1946|| Pakistan||
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| [[Haseena Moin]] || 1941–2021 || Pakistan||
|-
| [[Abdul Hameed (writer)|Abdul Hameed]] || 1925–2011|| Pakistan||
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| [[Khalid Ahmad]] || 1943–2013|| Pakistan||
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| [[Shoaib Hashmi]] || || Pakistan||
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| [[Shahid Nadeem]] || 1947–|| Pakistan||
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| [[Sarwat Nazir]] || || Pakistan|| [[Main Abdul Qadir Hun]]
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| [[Samira Fazal]] || || Pakistan|| ''[[Dastaan (2010 TV series)|Daastan]]''
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| [[Taj Haider]] || 1942|| Pakistan||
|-
| [[Shamim Hanfi]] || 1938–2021 || Pakistan||
|-
| [[Javed Siddiqi]] || 1942-|| Indian||
|}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/tareekh-e-adab-e-urdu-ram-babu-saxena-ebooks?lang=ur Saksina, Ram Babu: ''Tareekh e Adab Urdu'' (ebook at Rekhta.org)]

[[Category:Urdu-language dramatists and playwrights|*]]

List of Urdu dramatists - Revision history

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