Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by Ruth Vanita

Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

Ruth Vanita

310 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction gender history poetry informative reflective medium-paced
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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 Ur...

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