In this book author Dr Arshad Iqbal describes the history of short story. How short stories originated in the twentieth century and how great fiction writers presented the social and cultural topics to the times through short fiction and what were the effects of Urdu fiction on the partition of India. And the contributions of the great Urdu novelists are described and here are the names of some of the great Urdu novelists Majnu gorakhpuri, hayatullah ansari, krishan chandra, ismat chugtai, quratul ain haider, jilani bano etc.