The Dancing Girl

Released on by Hasan Shah
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  • The Dancing Girl Book Detail

  • Author : Hasan Shah
  • Release Date : 1993
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 132
  • ISBN 13 : 9780811212564
  • File Size : 40,40 MB
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The Dancing Girl by Hasan Shah PDF Summary

Book Description: 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".

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