Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870 / Ruth Vanita.

By:

Ruth Vanita

Publication details: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan Private Limited, 2012.Description: xvii, 322 pISBN:

9788125045533

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DDC classification:

891.439 100 992 87 Q2

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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	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Mahatma Gandhi University Library General Stacks	891.439 100 992 87 Q2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50426
Books	Mahatma Gandhi University Library General Stacks	891.439 100 9 Q2;1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		52135

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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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