Inder Sabha
Urdu play / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inder Sabha (Urdu: اندر سبھا, lit. "the Council of Indra") is an Urdu play and opera written by Agha Hasan Amanat, and first staged in 1853.[1] It is regarded as the first complete Urdu stage play ever written.[1][2] The play was translated into German in the 1880s as a doctoral thesis at the University of Leipzig by Friedrich Rosen, and published to positive critical reception in 1892.[1][2][3] A film, Indrasabha, based on the play was released by Madan Theatre in 1932.[4]