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- catalog abstract "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."".
- catalog alternative "Nashtar. English".
- catalog contributor b5678962.
- catalog coverage "India Fiction.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111).".
- catalog 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."".
- catalog extent "xv, 111 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0811212564 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng per".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions Pub. Corp.,".
- catalog spatial "India Fiction.".
- catalog subject "891/.4933 20".
- catalog subject "Hasan Shah, active 18th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PK2198.H313 A24 1993".
- catalog title "Nashtar. English".
- catalog title "The dancing girl : a novel / by Hasan Shah ; translated by Qurratulain Hyder.".
- catalog type "Autobiographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Love stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".