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

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 foc...

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Main Author: Vanita, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
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