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Author: Pran Nevile
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents An Authentic View Of Dance Entertainment Specially During The Raj. It Is Sumptuously Illustrated With Productions Of The Finest Paintings And Drawings From Collections All Over The World.
Author: Pran Nevile
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780143064787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life and times of the nautch girl evoked by Nevile are an eye-opener The Times of India To see her is to fall in love, and to drink a cup of wine from the flask of her lustrous eyes is to be transported to the cosiest corner of Heaven. To be with her even for a moment is to taste immortality. The much-celebrated nautch girl, extravagantly adored for both her beauty and her virtuosity, belonged to a unique class of courtesans who played a significant role in the social and cultural life of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The nautch girl, it may be said, was no ordinary woman of pleasure she had refined manners, a ready wit and poetry in her blood. She embodied a splendid synthesis of different cultures and dance forms the classical and the popular and catered to the sophisticated tastes of the elite who had the time, resources and inclination to enjoy her accomplishments. Over the centuries female dancers have appeared in various incarnations, frequently as temple dancers dedicated to the gods, for dance is believed to have divine approval. However, historians, sociologists, novelists and chroniclers have not always done justice to the nautch girl, depicting her as either a vamp or as a showgirl bought by the wealthy for festive occasions. This book highlights the emergence of the quintessential nautch girl in the Mughal era when she reached the zenith of her talent and charisma. Her mystique continued to reign supreme during the Raj and her popularity and status among the English sahibs and the Indian aristocracy flourished during this period.
Author: Julie Peakman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1789141737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women were not only involved in the building of empires, but how they were also almost invariably exploited. Women acted as negotiators, brothel keepers, traders, and peace keepers—but they were also forced into marriages and raped. The book describes women in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas, and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces and private households and onboard ships. Their stories are drawn from many sources—from captains’ logs, missionary reports, and cannibals’ memoirs to travelers’ letters, traders’ accounts, and reports on prostitutes. From debauched clerics and hog-buggering Pilgrims to sexually-confused cannibals and sodomizing samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history into its darkest corners.
Author: Hasan Shah
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780811212564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jan's death, her grief-stricken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, first-person narrative "without realizing", as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), "that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel".
Author: James Forbes
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9788121202190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A literary exposition of the early 19th century India, with interesting account of social, cultural and religious life. These illustrated chronicles are valuable for conservation and restoration of some of the important historical buildings and monuments
Author: C Phillip
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-21
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781660465590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mrinalini, a native ex-dancer at the old Gold House, is harbouring a deadly secret. Together with her trusted aide Sajjan, she is secretly providing shelter in the lower echelons of the Gold House to five young men - the same men accused of the notorious cold-blooded murder of Major Harold Armitage. Fiercely patriotic and hot-blooded, the men regard Mrinalini as "Didi" and trust in her completely while waiting for a means to escape from the city. When the handsome and youthful investigating officer, Captain White, arrives at the old Gold House seeking answers to the bizzarre murder of his superior, Mrinalini finds herself at a crossroads. Will Mrinalini sacrifice the just and captivating White to prove her loyalty to her Motherland or risk being branded a traitor by her own people?
Author: Saba Dewan
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789395073592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Davesh Soneji
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0226768090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author: Hasan Shah
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An English Translation Of 1790 Novel `Nashtar` , The Title Changed To Nautch Girl. Portrays Realistically The Contemporary Scene In The Author`S Time Which Makes It India`S First Modern Novel.
