{"id":407,"date":"2018-03-26T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=407"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:35:27","slug":"kesavan-mukul-urdu-awadh-and-the-tawaif-the-islamicate-roots-of-hindi-cinema-forging-identities-gender-communities-and-the-state-in-india-ed-zoya-hasan-boulder-colora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Kesavan, Mukul.  \u201cUrdu, Awadh, and the Tawaif: the Islamicate roots of Hindi Cinema.\u201d  Forging Identities: Gender, Communities and the State in India.  Edited by Zoya Hasan,  Westview, 1994,  pp. 244-257."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kesavan&#8217;s essay explores the relationship between Hindi cinema and what Kesavan calls &#8220;Islamicate&#8221; culture, referring &#8220;<em>not directly to the religion, Islam, itself but to the social and cultural complex historically associated with Islam and Muslims.<\/em>&#8221; Kesavan notes three key links between Islamicate culture and cinema, notably Urdu, Awadh (the setting of, among many texts,\u00a0<em>Umrao Jaan<\/em>)\u00a0and the cinematic figure of the tawaif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kesavan&#8217;s essay explores the relationship between Hindi cinema and what Kesavan calls &#8220;Islamicate&#8221; culture, referring &#8220;not directly to the religion, Islam, itself but to the social and cultural complex historically associated with Islam and Muslims.&#8221; Kesavan notes three key links between Islamicate culture and cinema, notably Urdu, Awadh (the setting of, among many texts,\u00a0Umrao Jaan)\u00a0and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=407\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[41],"tags":[90,26,49],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","tag-film","tag-secondary-source","tag-tawaif"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}