Template:Progressive Writers' Movement

• Sajjad Zaheer
• Ahmed Ali
• M. D. Taseer
• Hajrah Begum
• Rashid Jahan
• Razia Sajjad Zaheer
• Abdul Aleem
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz
• Majaz
• Ahmad Faraz
• Ismat Chughtai
• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Kaifi Azmi
• Jan Nisar Akhtar
• Shamim Karhani
• Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi
• Josh Malihabadi
• Sahir Ludhianvi
• Majrooh Sultanpuri
• Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
• Ali Sardar Jafri
• Akhtar ul Iman
• Majnun Gorakhpuri
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Sibte Hassan
• Habib Jalib
• Ale Ahmad Suroor
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
• Akhtar Husain
• Fikr Taunsvi
• Habib Tanvir
• Salma Siddiqui
• Krishan Chander
• Khatir Ghaznavi
• Muhammad Ali Siddiqui
• Sulaiman Areeb
• Hameed Akhtar
• Shaukat Siddiqui
• Salaam Machhalishahari
• Aziz Qaisi
• Khawar Rizvi
• Hajra Masroor
• K. A. Abbas
• Mohiuddin Qadri Zore

English writers

• Mulk Raj Anand
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Bengali writers

• Somen Chanda
• Pramod Ranjan Sengupta
• Bishnu Dey

Punjabi writers

• Amrita Pritam
• Ahmad Rahi

Hindi writers

• Premchand

Kashmiri writers

• Rehman Rahi
• Dinanath Nadim

Marathi writers

• Mama Varerkar

• Angarey
• Atish Paray
• Twilight in Delhi
• Manto Ke Afsanay
• Dhuan

• Communist Party of India
• Indian People's Theatre Association