Farhat Hasan

Voices in Verses

Women's Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the women's biographical compendia, this is a study of the memory of women in the literary culture in early modern India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781009453035
• ISBN-10: 1009453033
• Artikelnr.: 69930416

Autorenporträt

Farhat Hasan is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern South Asian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is one of the most well established and renowned historians of South Asia. His areas of interest include Medieval India, with particular interests in court culture, identities and gender relations in the period, and Islam in India during the Medieval and colonial period, in particular, religious thought and practices. He is the author of Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India, published with the Press in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
2. Unraveling the Texts: Memory, Reforms, and Literary Sulh-i-Kul
3. Representing an Inclusive Literary Culture: Women Poets in the Bazars and Kothas
4. Representing the Kothas: The Two Sisters in the Literary Sphere
5. Commemorating the Women Poets: Memory, Gender and the Literary Culture in the Persianate World
6. Secluded Poets in Literary Spaces: Memorializing the Female Rulers, Consorts and Memsahibs
7. Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.