Angāre ("Hot coals") is a collection of Urdu short stories by four young, left-wing Muslim writers from Lucknow: Sajjād Ẓāhir (1905-73), a barrister; Aḥmad ʿĀlī (1910-94), a university teacher; Rashīd Jahān (1905-52), a physician; and her husband, Maḥmūd al-Ẓafar (1903-56), a Communist activist. Its publication in December 1932 provoked a storm of protest and marked a literary turning-point. The authors deliberately set out to shock their Indian Muslim contemporaries, exposing the political, social, and religious evils of the day, using language and style