Historical novels are based on the plot that depicts the settings in the past and focuses on the manners, social conditions and other details of the period. The history based novels allow the readers to understand how the people in the past responded with the environments and what significant role history play in our lives.
Naseem Hijazi is a well-known Urdu novel writer. Most of his novels are based on the Islamic history where he has shown the rise and fall of Islamic history. He was born before the independence of Pakistan and spends most of his life in Pakistan and died in March 1996. Some of his novels depict the rise of Islam to political, economic and educational power while some are based on the rise and fall of Islam in Spain. Pardesi Darakht is one of his historical novel based on the British Indian Empire, partition of India and the creation of Pakistan.
The novel is the second part of Gumshuda Qafilay, and it depicts the British rule on Indo-Pakistan. The writer has told about the conspiracies of British kingdom and the sacrifices made by our Muslim brothers and sisters at the time when the creation of Pakistan was the major issue. It was due to our national hero Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the trouble of creating Pakistan ended in a good way. The writer has developed the spirit of true Pakistani in our youth and discussed about the ideology of Pakistan and the real implementation of Islam in an Islamic country.
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Pardesi Darkht by Naseem Hijazi