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The Mughal Aviary: Women's Writings in Pre-Modern India

By Sabiha Huq, Sonia Nishat Amin (Introduction)
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By Sabiha Huq, Sonia Nishat Amin (Introduction)
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This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603), the youngest daughter of Emperor Babur, Jahanara (1614-1681), the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638-1702), the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb, belonged to royalty. Thus, they were inhabitants of the Mughal 'zenana', an enigmatic liminal space of qualified autonomy and complex equations of gender politics. Amidst such constructs, Gu...

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