Gender, sex and the city Urdu Rekhti poetry in India 1780-1870

By:

Vanita, Ruth

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic worldPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012Description: xii,296p. 25 cmISBN:

9780230340640

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891.43910099287 22 VA-G

Summary: "This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"--

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Item type	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Print	Special Collection - R. Sudarshan	FOB Library	891.439100992 VA-G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Gifted by Prof. R. Sudarshan		021977
Print	General Books	Main Library	891.43910099287 VA-G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available			122296

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"--

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