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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 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 love poem.
Gender, Sex And The City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry, 1780-1870
Author: Ruth Vanita
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125045533
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