Language and literature

Padarkush (The Patricide)

Behbudiy on a 2026 stamp — Post of Uzbekistan / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Author: Mahmudxoʻja Behbudiy
Published: 1911
Language: özbəkcə

The first Uzbek drama (1911). Through a young man who shuns education, falls in with bad company and kills his own father, it shows the disaster of ignorance. It was staged across Turkestan as a manifesto of the Jadid enlightenment.

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