{"id":1048,"date":"2021-02-25T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:04:48","slug":"blasia_africa-divan-of-chanda-copy-presented-by-author-to-john-malcolm-in-1799-io-islamic-2768-twitter-19-april-2017-541-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"@BLAsia_Africa. “Divan of Chanda, copy presented by author to John Malcolm in 1799 (IO Islamic 2768).” Twitter, 19 April 2017, 5:41 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This tweet<\/a> contains photographs of the British Museum’s copy of famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai’s Divan of Chanda<\/em> (called Diwan e Chanda in Urdu). Divan of Chanda<\/em> is a manuscript collection of Mah Laqa’s 125 Ghazals, compiled and calligraphed by her in 1798. The photographs are credited to Sufinama<\/a>, a web-based archive of Sufi poetry, and William Dalrymple<\/a>, a historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A photograph of English writing on the first page of Divan of Chanda.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A photograph of a poem from Divan of Chanda <\/em>written in Urdu by famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai Chanda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This tweet contains photographs of the British Museum’s copy of famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai’s Divan of Chanda (called Diwan e Chanda in Urdu). Divan of Chanda is a manuscript collection of Mah Laqa’s 125 Ghazals, compiled and calligraphed by her in 1798. The photographs are credited to Sufinama, a web-based archive of Sufi poetry, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83,65,133,61,39],"tags":[108,128,48,49],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-history-tawaifs","category-literature-written-by-courtesans","category-open-sourcefree-online","category-photos-and-illustrations","tag-mah-laqa-bai","tag-open-source-free","tag-primary-source","tag-tawaif"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t