{"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. &#8220;Divan of Chanda, copy presented by author to John Malcolm in 1799 (IO Islamic 2768).&#8221; Twitter, 19 April 2017, 5:41 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLAsia_Africa\/status\/854630983236284416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This tweet<\/a> contains photographs of the British Museum&#8217;s copy of famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai&#8217;s <em>Divan of Chanda<\/em> (called Diwan e Chanda in Urdu). <em>Divan of Chanda<\/em> is a manuscript collection of Mah Laqa&#8217;s 125 Ghazals, compiled and calligraphed by her in 1798. The photographs are credited to <a href=\"https:\/\/sufinama.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sufinama<\/a>, a web-based archive of Sufi poetry, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Dalrymple_(historian)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Dalrymple<\/a>, a historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1049 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><figcaption>A photograph of English writing on the first page of <em>Divan of Chanda.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Mah-Laqa-Bai-Divan-of-Chanda-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><figcaption>A photograph of a poem from <em>Divan of Chanda <\/em>written in Urdu by famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai Chanda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet contains photographs of the British Museum&#8217;s copy of famed tawaif Mah Laqa Bai&#8217;s Divan of Chanda (called Diwan e Chanda in Urdu). Divan of Chanda is a manuscript collection of Mah Laqa&#8217;s 125 Ghazals, compiled and calligraphed by her in 1798. The photographs are credited to Sufinama, a web-based archive of Sufi poetry, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1048\">Read More &#8230;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}