Katherine Butler Schofield

Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India (eBook, ePUB)

Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009058407
• Artikelnr.: 70911904

Autorenporträt

Katherine Schofield is Head of the Department of Music at King's College London and recipient of a European Research Council Grant and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. She is co-editor of Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (2015) and Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Chasing eurydice: writing on music in the late Mughal
world; 2. The Mughal orpheus: remembering Khushhal Khan Gunasamudra in
eighteenth-century Delhi; 3. The rivals: Anjha Baras, Adarang and the
scattering of Shahjahanabad; 4. The courtesan and the Memsahib: Khanum Jan
and Sophia Plowden at the court of Lucknow; 5. Eclipsed by the Moon:
Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad; 6. Faithful to the
salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India company in Rajasthan; 7.
Keeper of the flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the last of the Mughal Emperors;
8. Orphans of the uprising: late Mughal Echoes and 1857.