Nou-Ayin e John Horace Ford; A Rare Qissa from the Eighteenth Century

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">This article presents the very first critical editing of the &ldquo;Nou-Ayin e John Horace Ford&rdquo; by Rustam Ali Bijnori. This &lsquo;qissa&rsquo; was penned down in 1786 A.D for presenting to an East India Company&rsquo;s army officer John Horace Ford. A manuscript of abovesaid qissa is kept in the Middle Eastern Manuscript section of Special Collections at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Alongwith critical editing, a brief biographical introduction of the author, linguistic and stylistic analysis of the text and a glossary are also included in this article.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Keywords: Urdu prose, Nou-Ayin e John Horace Ford, Rustam Ali Bijnori, Critical Editing, Manuscripts</span></p>