Google Books 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 … Continue reading Shah, Hasan. The Dancing Girl. Translated by Qurratulain Hyder. New Directions, 1993.