Nautch Girls Of India
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Nautch Girls Of The Raj
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Author : Pran Nevile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Nautch Girls Of The Raj written by Pran Nevile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The life and times of the nautch girl evoked by Nevile are an eye-opener The Times of India To see her is to fall in love, and to drink a cup of wine from the flask of her lustrous eyes is to be transported to the cosiest corner of Heaven. To be with her even for a moment is to taste immortality. The much-celebrated nautch girl, extravagantly adored for both her beauty and her virtuosity, belonged to a unique class of courtesans who played a significant role in the social and cultural life of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The nautch girl, it may be said, was no ordinary woman of pleasure she had refined manners, a ready wit and poetry in her blood. She embodied a splendid synthesis of different cultures and dance forms the classical and the popular and catered to the sophisticated tastes of the elite who had the time, resources and inclination to enjoy her accomplishments. Over the centuries female dancers have appeared in various incarnations, frequently as temple dancers dedicated to the gods, for dance is believed to have divine approval. However, historians, sociologists, novelists and chroniclers have not always done justice to the nautch girl, depicting her as either a vamp or as a showgirl bought by the wealthy for festive occasions. This book highlights the emergence of the quintessential nautch girl in the Mughal era when she reached the zenith of her talent and charisma. Her mystique continued to reign supreme during the Raj and her popularity and status among the English sahibs and the Indian aristocracy flourished during this period.
Nautch Girls Of India
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Author : Pran Nevile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Nautch Girls Of India written by Pran Nevile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Court dancing categories.
Presents An Authentic View Of Dance Entertainment Specially During The Raj. It Is Sumptuously Illustrated With Productions Of The Finest Paintings And Drawings From Collections All Over The World.
The Nautch Girl
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Author : Hasan Shah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Nautch Girl written by Hasan Shah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Urdu fiction categories.
An English Translation Of 1790 Novel `Nashtar` , The Title Changed To Nautch Girl. Portrays Realistically The Contemporary Scene In The Author`S Time Which Makes It India`S First Modern Novel.
The Last Nautch Girl
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Author : C Phillip
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-21
The Last Nautch Girl written by C Phillip and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with categories.
Mrinalini, a native ex-dancer at the old Gold House, is harbouring a deadly secret. Together with her trusted aide Sajjan, she is secretly providing shelter in the lower echelons of the Gold House to five young men - the same men accused of the notorious cold-blooded murder of Major Harold Armitage. Fiercely patriotic and hot-blooded, the men regard Mrinalini as "Didi" and trust in her completely while waiting for a means to escape from the city. When the handsome and youthful investigating officer, Captain White, arrives at the old Gold House seeking answers to the bizzarre murder of his superior, Mrinalini finds herself at a crossroads. Will Mrinalini sacrifice the just and captivating White to prove her loyalty to her Motherland or risk being branded a traitor by her own people?
The Dancing Girl
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Author : Hasan Shah
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1993
The Dancing Girl written by Hasan Shah and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel".
Bells Of Change
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Author : Pallabi Chakravorty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Bells Of Change written by Pallabi Chakravorty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"The first critical study of Kathak dance within the discourses of the modern and the global, tracing the arc of two centuries of Kathak: the colonial nautch dance, classical Kathak under nationalism and postcolonialism and 'innovation' and 'new directions' under transnationalism and globalization. It blends various approaches from anthropology, ethnomusicology, and performance, media and gender studies to map the journey of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage. The book uses dance as a lens to explore the interaction between the actors and forces of cultural change from power and patronage to television and film."--BOOK JACKET.
Tawaifnama
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Author : Saba Dewan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-11-03
Tawaifnama written by Saba Dewan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with Fiction categories.
Licentious Worlds
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Author : Julie Peakman
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2019-12-15
Licentious Worlds written by Julie Peakman and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with History categories.
Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women were not only involved in the building of empires, but how they were also almost invariably exploited. Women acted as negotiators, brothel keepers, traders, and peace keepers—but they were also forced into marriages and raped. The book describes women in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas, and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces and private households and onboard ships. Their stories are drawn from many sources—from captains’ logs, missionary reports, and cannibals’ memoirs to travelers’ letters, traders’ accounts, and reports on prostitutes. From debauched clerics and hog-buggering Pilgrims to sexually-confused cannibals and sodomizing samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history into its darkest corners.
Unfinished Gestures
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Author : Davesh Soneji
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Unfinished Gestures written by Davesh Soneji and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Religion categories.
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indian Sex Life
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Author : Durba Mitra
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Indian Sex Life written by Durba Mitra and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with History categories.
"During the colonial period, Indian intellectuals--philologists, lawyers, scientists and literary figures--all sought to hold a mirror to their country. Whether they wrote novels, polemics, or scientific treatises, all sought a better understanding of society in general and their society in particular. Curiously, female sexuality and sexual behavior play an outside role in their writing. The figure of the prostitute is ubiquitous in everything from medical texts and treatises on racial evolution to anti-Muslim polemic and studies of ancient India. In this book, Durba Mitra argues that between the 1840s and the 1940s, the new science of sexuality became foundational to the scientific study of Indian social progress. The colonial state and an emerging set of Bengali male intellectuals extended the regulation of sexuality to far-reaching projects that sought to define what society should look like and how modern citizens should behave. An exploration of this history of social scientific thought offers new perspectives to understand the power of paternalistic and deeply violent claims about sexual norms in the postcolonial world today. These histories reveal the enduring authority of scientific claims to a tradition that equates social good with the control of women's free will and desire. Thus, they managed to dramatically reorganize their society around upper-caste Hindu ideals of strict monogamy"--