The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947

The Urdu litterateur Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1906–1967) recorded a series of reflections and reminiscences about Delhi, its culture, and how that culture was brought to an end by the violence of Partition in 1947. In his essays on music, he documented the performances and personal histories of a range...

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Autor principal:	Richard David Williams
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	Partition Urdu literature music nostalgia Delhi Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:809742b1993c4df19a388b6ce4f7faf42021-11-27T12:53:03ZThe rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 194710.12797/CIS.23.2021.01.071732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/809742b1993c4df19a388b6ce4f7faf42021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/3849https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The Urdu litterateur Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1906–1967) recorded a series of reflections and reminiscences about Delhi, its culture, and how that culture was brought to an end by the violence of Partition in 1947. In his essays on music, he documented the performances and personal histories of a range of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists based in Delhi in the first half of the 20th century and considered their plight after Independence. In this article, I examine three of these essays—two in Urdu and one in English—and ask two questions. Firstly, how does this author develop a sense of historical depth to the social and cultural rupture he experienced in 1947? I suggest that his Urdu essays draw upon a longer history of literary nostalgia and connect a Delhicentric understanding of Partition to the earlier crisis of 1857. Secondly, how did attending to music allow Shahid Dehlvi to explore the nuances of cultural rupture and personal loss? Richard David WilliamsKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticlePartitionUrdu literaturemusicnostalgiaDelhiIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 23, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	The Urdu litterateur Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1906–1967) recorded a series of reflections and reminiscences about Delhi, its culture, and how that culture was brought to an end by the violence of Partition in 1947. In his essays on music, he documented the performances and personal histories of a range of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists based in Delhi in the first half of the 20th century and considered their plight after Independence. In this article, I examine three of these essays—two in Urdu and one in English—and ask two questions. Firstly, how does this author develop a sense of historical depth to the social and cultural rupture he experienced in 1947? I suggest that his Urdu essays draw upon a longer history of literary nostalgia and connect a Delhicentric understanding of Partition to the earlier crisis of 1857. Secondly, how did attending to music allow Shahid Dehlvi to explore the nuances of cultural rupture and personal loss?
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The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947

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