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

By:

Vanita, Ruth

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENGLISH LANGUAGE Series: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic worldPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xii, 296 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

978-81-250-4553-3 :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.439 VAN - GEN
23

LOC classification:

PK2168 .V36 2012

Other classification:

LIT004220 | SOC032000 | REL037000

Summary: "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 focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	MUC Women's College Library	891.439 VAN - GEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		30211

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"-- Provided by publisher.

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

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