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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruth Vanita
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan Private Limited, 2012.
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Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=kSDHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA190&dq=gender,+sex+and+the+city&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q1b5VMKOJpOWuASZ5IGQAg&ved=0CB4Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=gender%2C%20sex%20and%20the%20city&f=false