He has written twelve books and edited the English journal Furtherance and the Urdu monthly Shahkaar.

[citation needed] Some of his works have been translated into German, Persian and Uzbek Languages.

Khalid Alvi received his early education in his home town Chandpur, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh and then he joined the University of Delhi as a Research Scholar.

After Alvi finished his MPhil, he was offered an assistant professorship at the college of Delhi University.

It was written by Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jahan, Mahmud-uz-Zafar and Ahmed Ali[1] Alvi reissued the book in 1993, but, when doing so, had to excise major portions of it.