Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India

In the aftermath of 1857, urban spaces and cultural practices were transformed and contested. Regional royal capitals became nodes in a new colonial geography, and the earlier regimes that had built them were recast as decadent and corrupt societies. Demolitions and new infrastructures aside, this transformation was also felt at the level of manners, sexual mores, language politics, and the performing arts. This article explores this transformation with a focus on women's language, female singers and dancers, and the men who continued to value their literary and musical skills. While dancing girls and courtesans were degraded by policy-makers and vernacular journalists alike, their Urdu compositions continued to be circulated, published, and discussed. Collections of women's biographies and lyrics gesture to the importance of embodied practices in cultivating emotional positions. This cultivation was valued in late Mughal elite society, and continued to resonate for emotional communities of connoisseurs, listeners, and readers, even as they navigated the expectations and sensibilities of colonial society

L'ultima fiamma di Delhi Introduzione, traduzione e note di Daniela Bredi

Introduzione, traduzione e note, con testo originale in appendice, di un testo pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1927 dalla Anjuman –i Taraqqi-i Urdu, adottato poi in molte scuole indiane come manuale di storia della letteratura urdu, ancora oggi ristampato e utilizzato. Il testo consiste nella descrizione di una sessione poetica alla quale partecipano quasi tutti i poeti del periodo classico. Introduction, Translation, and Notes ( original text in Appendix) of a text first published on the journal Urdu Adab by the Anjuman –i Taraqqi-i Urdu. It found soon a place in the syllabus of many Indian schools , and for this reason it has been much in demand until very recent times. The text consists in a description of a fictitious poetic session whose participants are almost all the main classical Urdu poets, and is still reprinted and utilized

I cristiani del Pakistan come stato islamico

la minoranza cristiana del Pakistan di fronte al reato di blasfemiaBlasphemy as a crime and Pakistan's Christian minorit

Islam in South Asia, Vol. monografico di Oriente Moderno XXIII (LXXXIV) n.s.,1

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