Urdu literature in general and Urdu poetry in particular, always played its part in generating, shaping and mobilizing the Indian public opinion and defeated thereof all the odds of time and space during India's progressive journey. Accordingly, Urdu literature resisted the British imperialism from its very beginning. However, during 1940's, when British employed in full swing, all Machiavellian, ideological, political and military tools to maintain their imperial permanence in India, thereby

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... viding Indians on different grounds, Urdu poetry performed well its moral responsibility of generating and mobilizing united public opinion against British rule. Urdu poets fought British Raj by inculcating among Indians spirit of unity, patriotism, and sacrifice. Urdu poetry besides giving a vide space to all forms of anti-British resistance going on in India and abroad, also quickened the pace of freedom movement by mobilizing the public opinion against British Raj. This piece of research therefore, explores the dominant nationalistic trends in Urdu poetry during 1940's by analyzing three Urdu poems.