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Professor Ralph Russell SI (Urdu: رالف رَسَل) (born 21 May 1918, died 14 September 2008) was a British scholar of Urdu literature and a Communist. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, UK. He taught Urdu and Urdu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and also in universities in India and Pakistan. He wrote articles and essays in Urdu and English, and attended literary seminars and workshops on the subject of his specialization. Russell was born in Homerton, London, England, and grew up in Loughton, Essex. For much of his life he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in recognition of his services to Urdu language and literature by the Government of Pakistan. Loughton Town Council installed a blue plaque to Russell on his boyhood home at 6 Queen's Road in that town, which was inaugurated with a reception given by the present owners for family, friends and colleagues, on 15 July 2013. ==Books== * ''Three Mughal Poets'', 1968 * ''Ghalib, life and letters'', 1969 * ''New course in Urdu and spoken Hindi for learners in Britain'', 1997 * ''The pursuit of Urdu literature'' 1992 * ''Selections from the Persian Ghazals of Ghalib with Translations'' 1997 * ''An Anthology of Urdu Literature'' 1999 * ''How not to write the history of Urdu literature'' 1999 * ''The Famous Ghalib'' 2000 * ''The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals'' 2003 * ''The Seeing Eye: Selection from the Urdu and Persian Ghazals of Ghalib'' 2003 * ''Urdu in Britain'' (Ed), 1982 * ''Ghalib: The Poet and his Age'' (Ed) 1997 Autobiography * ''Findings, keepings: Life, Communism and everything'' 2001 * ''Losses, Gains'' published by Three Essays, New Delhi, 2010 In Urdu * ''Urdu Adab ki Justuju'' (Urdu translation of ''The Pursuit of Urdu Literature'', by Muhammad Sarwar Rija (2003) * ''Juyinda Yabinda (Urdu translation of his autobiography, by Arjumand Ara)'', City Press, Karchi, 2005 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Russell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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