{"id":544,"date":"2018-08-30T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=544"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:30:28","slug":"ward-leda-images-of-a-decolonizing-india-bollywoods-tawaif-and-the-postcolonial-muslim-thesis-barnard-college-dance-department-columbia-university-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Ward, Leda. Images of a Decolonizing India: Bollywood\u2019s Tawai\u2019f and the Postcolonial Muslim. Thesis, Barnard College, Dance Department, Columbia University, 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This thesis is available for free online through <a href=\"https:\/\/dance.barnard.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/inline\/leda_ward.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnard College&#8217;s Dance Department.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ward&#8217;s thesis explores the ways in which the tawa&#8217;if figure in 4 major Bollywood films\u2014the nameless tawai&#8217;f of Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam, Chitralekha of Devdas, Umrao Jaan of Umrao Jaan, and Sahib Jaan of Pakeezah\u2014&#8221;retell the story of Muslims in colonial and postcolonial India,&#8221; particularly in terms of displacement and marginalization. Ward contextualizes her analyses using the historical background of pre-colonial tawa&#8217;ifs and of partition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thesis is available for free online through Barnard College&#8217;s Dance Department. Ward&#8217;s thesis explores the ways in which the tawa&#8217;if figure in 4 major Bollywood films\u2014the nameless tawai&#8217;f of Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam, Chitralekha of Devdas, Umrao Jaan of Umrao Jaan, and Sahib Jaan of Pakeezah\u2014&#8221;retell the story of Muslims in colonial and postcolonial <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=544\">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":[41,61],"tags":[77,56,58,128,96,98,26,49,97],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-open-sourcefree-online","tag-bollywood","tag-courtesan-films","tag-film-tropes","tag-open-source-free","tag-pakeezah","tag-partition","tag-secondary-source","tag-tawaif","tag-umrao-jaan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}