Urdu · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Imperialism

इम्पीरियलिज़्म

said im-PEER-i-a-lizm

also written: imperialism, isti'mar, istimar, samrajya

Meaning

Imperialism, colonial domination (Arabic isti'mar). Iqbal indicted European empire as the political face of soulless materialism — plunder dressed as civilizing mission.

See it in the verse

Imperialism in Iqbal’s couplets

Ho agar khudnigar-o-khudgar-o-khudgir khudi
Ye bhi mumkin hai ki tu maut se bhi mar na sake

If your selfhood becomes self-seeing, self-making and self-possessed, it is even possible that not even death can make you die.

Selfhood · Self-Knowledge

Related words

PERSIAN

Farang

The land of the Franks — Europe and the West; in Iqbal the emblem of dazzling but soulless modern civilisation and material power.

PERSIAN

Firang / Maghrib

The West, Europe — literally “the Franks.”

PERSIAN

Sarmayadari

Capitalism; rule of capital. Iqbal denounced it as a system in which a few hoard wealth wrung from the labour and blood of the many, and called the worker to rise against it.

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