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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Orient Black Swan,
c2012.
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| Series: | Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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