Anwar Ahmed is distinguished and esteemed critic of Urdu fiction. This article shows the study of his remarkable book, ‘‘Urdu Afsana - Aik Sadi ka Qisa’’. He is generally known as progressive critic of Urdu. He expressed the history of Urdu short story in the form of tradition. Basically this book is divided into two parts; tradition of Praim Chand and realization of tradition. The author has explored and criticized the art of short story of two hundred and fortyfive Urdu short story writers. In this article first of all an eye bird view is taken of his book. Secondly, principles of research which the author exercises in this book are conversed. Thirdly author's research along with analytical process is separately observed. Lastly being aut...