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This volume presents a diverse range of scholarship which seeks to outline some of the cultural activities practiced by peoples of South Asian origin who live in other places. Literature on the South Asian diaspora has tended to cluster in two areas: the demographically-oriented work of the 1970s and 1980s; and more recent theoretical work from the 1990s, which has been developed within the framework of postcolonial studies. The essays in the present volume ...
A lovelorn concubine, a young woman on the verge of marriage, a married woman in love with another, a woman in love with God. This collection presents unusual and lesser-known love lyrics from the Indo-Muslim literary tradition that have given voice over the last five centuries to the erotic and the spiritual, the mundane and the sublime. Translated from early Punjabi as well as Dakani and Lakhnavi Urdu, these poems were authored by men but narrated in the ...