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Abstract

The cocepts of nature in urdu literature has gone through various changes.In 19th century,the discussion on this topic started with religious thoughts of Sir Sayyed Ahmwd Khan abd colonial modenity.The nature of thids dialogue was purly philosophical.Maulana Hali and Muhammad Hussain Azad tried to integerate it in the realm of literature from the platform of Anjuman e punjab.Anjuman e punjab focused on a different kind of natural poetry but the concept of natural poetry was infact a part of colonial project which had specific goals.Imdam Imam Asar ,a contemporary critic of Hali and Azad firstly introduced the nature as a literary subject.Later urdu critics kept in view literary aspect of nature.In the post industrial era a new concept of nature has been created by New Capitalism for its own interests.No formal dialogue has yet started on this in urdu.thiis article present a study of concepts of nature in urdu from 19th century to 21st century with the help of examples and quotations of eminent urdu critics and scholors.