Voices in Verses - Women''s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Opens up an archive of women's verses found in the women's biographical compendia written in the nineteenth century that draw our attention to their memories in cultural spaces. It studies the women's voices in these texts to explore their aesthetic sensibilities, literary interventions, and representations of body, gender and love.

Product details

• Authors: Farhat Hasan, Farhat (University of Delhi) Hasan, Hasan Farhat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009453035
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945303-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, Urdu, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Asia / South / General