{"id":589,"date":"2019-03-12T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=589"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:27:56","slug":"singh-vijay-prakash-from-tawaif-to-nautch-girl-the-transition-of-the-lucknow-courtesan-south-asian-review-vol-35-no-2-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Singh, Vijay Prakash. “From Tawaif to Nautch Girl: The Transition of the Lucknow Courtesan.” South Asian Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lucknow with its Nawabi court and its patronage of dance and music has been for over two centuries a center of the art of fine language and etiquette. This paper focuses primarily on the dancing women,\u00a0tawaif<\/i>, who performed outside the court in private salons or\u00a0kothas.<\/i>\u00a0As highly accomplished women catering to the nobility, the tawaif enjoyed a high degree of financial independence and social prestige. After the establishment of the East India Company, the\u00a0tawaif<\/i>\u00a0were solicited as entertainers for British social gatherings and later pushed into prostitution. The paper shows the decline of the\u00a0tawaif<\/i>\u00a0as representatives of culture to mere social entertainers and subsequently as bazaar prostitutes surviving on the margins of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abstract Lucknow with its Nawabi court and its patronage of dance and music has been for over two centuries a center of the art of fine language and etiquette. This paper focuses primarily on the dancing women,\u00a0tawaif, who performed outside the court in private salons or\u00a0kothas.\u00a0As highly accomplished women catering to the nobility, the tawaif 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":[67,83,65],"tags":[35,87,69,23,78,44,49],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-tawaif-life","category-history","category-history-tawaifs","tag-anti-nautch-movement","tag-british-imperialism","tag-gender-roles","tag-history","tag-purity-movement","tag-sex-work","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