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CHAPTER ONE The Milieu F orPunjabiliteraturetheninetiesofthelastcenturysignified a turning point. This was a time of change, of fresh aspirationsandcommencements.Underjinfluenceswhichhad silently been at work, the hold of tradition was loosened and thefreedom oUhespiritextended.Therewasanunprecedented upsurge of the creative consciousness. New modes of expression were established. New themes became current. With these arose a whole structure of fresh vocabulary and metaphor, tone and style. Historically, a phase was reached which set off the old from the new. It was un.mistakably the beginning of the modem period. The manwhograspedthefull implicationsoftheprevailing urges and impulses and brought about this transformation in Punjabi letters was Bhai Vir Singh. In the sensitive soul was shaped a subtle andvital response to the stirrings of the time. This he verbaLized with the full powers of his Intellectual and intuitive genius. From his pen issued in a mighty flow novels, poetry, drama" epic, exegesis, biography, juv1enile literature, tract and periodical essay. Some of these forms were new to Punjabi and were introduced by him for the first time. Apart from its spiritual and social conscience, which initself is of no small consequence, this kind of writing completely changed the content and style of Punjabi literature. With it began a new chapter in its history. In a very real sense, modem Punjal:>i literature is of Bhai Vir Singh's making. Literary historians today 1trace to him the Page 9 of 108
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