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The incomparable festival
- Title
- The incomparable festival / Mir Yar Ali "Jan Sahib'; edited by Razak Khan ; translated by Shad Naved.
- Author
- Jān Ṣāḥib, Mīr Yār ʻAlī
- Publication
- Haryana, India : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- 95 pages 1 illustration; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "The incomparable festival (Musaddas tahniyat-e-jashn-e-benazir) by Mir Yar Ali (whose pen name was Jan Sahib) is a little known but sumptuous masterpiece of Indo-Islamic literary culture, presented here for the first time in English translation. Structured as an ode to the nawab, the poem is a world-album depicting various classes on the cusp of social upheaval. They include the elite, distinguished artists and commoners, brought together at the festivities, blurring the distinction between poetry, history and biography, and between poetic convention and social description. The book is a veritable archive of the legendary khayal singers, percussionists, and instrumentalists, courtesans, boy-dancers, poets, storytellers (dastango) and reciters of elegies (marsiyago). But, above all, the poem gives voice to the 'lowest' denizens of the marketplace by bringing to light their culinary tastes, artisanal products, religious rituals and beliefs, and savoury idioms, thereby focusing on identities of caste and gender in early modern society. This Penguin classics edition will be of interest no just to the Urdu and Hindi literary historian, but also to specialists and readers interested in the histories of music, dance, and the performative arts, as well as scholars of gender and sexuality in South Asia"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Musaddas tahnīyat-i jashn-i benaẓīr. English
- Penguin classics
- Alternative Title
- Musaddas tahnīyat-i jashn-i benaẓīr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Poésie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-89).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Urdu; with an introduction in English.
- ISBN
- 9780670093823
- 0670093823
- LCCN
- 2020333939
- OCLC
- on1263248006
- SCSB-14618314
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library