In the winter of 1931 Rashid Jahan published Angaaray , a collection of groundbreaking and unconventional short stories written with in Urdu with Sajjad Zaheer, Sahibzada Mahmuduzaffar and Ahmed Ali.
The book was publicly condemned at the central standing committee of the All-India Shia Conference at Lucknow as a "filthy pamphlet" that had "wounded the feelings of the entire Muslim community".