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#TocRecommends – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood

Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood #ToCRecommends Beloved Delhi traces the lives and works of some of Urdu’s greatest poets who lived in Delhi through the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This period was a very special one. It was during this time that the Mughal Empire was in its ultimate decline, and Delhi was the centre … Continue reading #TocRecommends – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood

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#ToCRecommends – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs

Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs. Translated for the original Urdu Kaghazi Hai Pairahan by M. Asaduddin #ToCRecommends This book contains the crucial years of Urdu literature’s one of the most controversial female writers. Ismat Chugtai was known for her outspoken ways of representing the then social structure, family dynamics and femininity. She’s amongst the nation’s foremost feminist writers, representing the … Continue reading #ToCRecommends – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs

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#TocRecommends – Daughters of the Sun by Ira Mukhoty

Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Daughters of the sun by @iramukhoty #ToCRecommends Daughters of the sun traces the lives of the most ignored members of the Mughal empire, its women. Most representations of women of the Mughal empire are often misinterpreted and fantasised by our western counterparts. This book gives us a very detailed description of the lives within the Mughal harem and the significance of women in … Continue reading #TocRecommends – Daughters of the Sun by Ira Mukhoty

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