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Satire and parody traditions

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Andher Nagari

Andher Nagari (अंधेर नगरी, "the city of darkness") is an 1881 Hindi farce by Bharatendu Harishchandra, set in a city where every good sells at one uniform price, satirizing a foolish ruler and unjust governance.

Batatyachi Chal

Batatyachi Chal (बटाट्याची चाळ) is a humorous Marathi book by P. L. Deshpande, published in 1958 by Mauj Prakashan, Mumbai, satirizing the middle-class residents of a fictitious chawl in Girgaon.

Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro

Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro (বুড়ো শালিকের ঘাড়ে রোঁ; New Feathers on an Old Bird) is an 1860 Bengali farce by Michael Madhusudan Dutt satirizing a pious but lascivious zamindar.

Haskalah satire

Haskalah satire is the satirical Hebrew and Yiddish literature written by maskilim of the Jewish Enlightenment from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century, aimed chiefly at Hasidism.

Hebrew satire

Hebrew satire (סאטירה עברית) is satirical writing composed in Hebrew, mocking people and ideas in comic form; it has been a significant Jewish literary genre since the late eighteenth century.

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha is a Bengali collection of satirical sketches by Kaliprasanna Sinha, first published in 1861, portraying urban life in 19th-century Calcutta, capital of British India.

La Satire Ménippée

La Satire Ménippée is a collective French political pamphlet in prose and verse, published in 1594 to caricature the Estates General held by the Catholic League in 1593 and to support Henri IV.

Prose satire

Prose satire is satire composed in prose rather than verse, depicting an evil condition in an individual or society that should be corrected or punished; Jonathan Swift was its dominant English figure.

Telugu satire

Telugu satire is the tradition of satirical and humorous writing in the Telugu language, turned against social customs and hypocrisy, largely a modern development begun in the early 19th century.

The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium) is a 1509 satirical oration by the Dutch humanist Erasmus, in which Folly exposes the follies of society and the church.

Ubayd Zakani's satirical prose

Ubayd Zakani's satirical prose is the humorous 14th-century Persian and Arabic prose of Ubayd Zakani of Qazvin, chiefly the Akhlaq al-ashraf and the Resala-ye delgosa.

Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab

Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab (اردو کی آخری کتاب, "The Last Book of Urdu") is a 1971 work of Urdu satire by Ibn-e-Insha, written as a parody school textbook.