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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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Main Author: Vanita, Ruth
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Orient Black Swan, c2012.
Series:Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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Call Number: 891.4391 VAN/G
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