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The Progressive Writers’ Movement in India shaped the political consciousness of a large number of people with its unequivocal emphasis on the need for nation-building and social transformation. The stalwarts of Urdu literature—Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ismat Chughtai, Kaifi Azmi, Krishan Chandar, Saadat Hasan Manto, Rashid Jahan, Ali Sardar Jafri—contributed prominently.