Hasan Askari
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"Muhammad Hasan Askari" (1978–1919) was a scholar, critic, writer and linguist of modern Urdu.

Askari was born on 5 November 1919 in a village in Bulandshahr District, in western Uttar Pradesh, India. He joined Allahabad University as an undergraduate in 1938 and earned a Master of Arts degree in English literature in 1942. After completing his education, he joined All India Radio, Delhi. For a brief period around 1944, he also taught English literature at Delhi College (now Zakir Husain Delhi College).

After Pakistan's independence in 1947, he and his family migrated to Pakistan and finally settled in Karachi in 1950. He joined Islamia College Karachi. By 1955 Askari became increasingly engaged in the transition to and formulation of Pakistani national culture, practically abandoning his previous work that had focused on discussions of style in Urdu language and literature.

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