TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kapuria, Radha, 
TI  - Music in colonial Punjab : : courtesans, bards, and connoisseurs, 1800-1947 
SN  - 9780192867346
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Maharaja Ranjit Singh
KW  - Punjab--Music
KW  - 1800-1947
N2  - "This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan."--
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