Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories
Popularly known as Bollywood, Bombay cinema conjures up song, dance and starry-eyed romance. Where do those conventions come from? Many derive from the historical influence of Muslim cultures interacting with other traditions in the Indian subcontinent. Contributions by major scholars of South Asian...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Frontispiece
- Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transliteration
- Part 1 Islamicate Histories
- 1 Passionate Refrains: The Theatricality of Urdu on the Parsi Stage
- Parsi pioneers and Urdu munshis
- Sight and sound in the urban playhouse
- Registers of Urdu
- Āghā Ḥashr and Yahūdī kī Laṛkī
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 2 The Persian Mas̤navī Tradition and Bombay Cinema
- Appendix 1: Indian films
- Appendix 2: Iranian films
- Notes
- References
- 3 Reflections from Padmini's Palace: Women's Voices of Longing and Lament in the Sufi Romance and Shi.i Elegy
- The virahi.i in early modern Awadhi and Braj literature
- Inter-canonical connections and the Hindavi mars.iya
- The virahi.i in the age of literary reform
- Notes
- References
- 4 Situating the T.awa'if as a Poet: Nostalgia, Urdu Literary Cultures and Vernacular Modernity
- Urdu print culture and vernacular modernity
- Ta.kiras on women poets and t.awa'if poets
- The Urdu ghazal and the forgotten t.awa'if poets
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5 Mughal Chronicles: Words, Images and the Gaps between Them
- Notes
- References
- 6 Justice, Love and the Creative Imagination in Mughal India
- Justice in Jahangir's memoir and paintings
- Legends of Jahangir's justice
- Jahangir's union with Nur Jahan
- Nur Jahan's rise to power
- Legend of romantic love
- Love and lex talionis
- Justice versus mercy: Sohrab Modi's Pukar
- Conclusion
- References
- 7 The 'Muslim Presence' in Padmaavat
- What is Muslim presence?
- Karni Sena's Padmaavati
- Padmaavat's Muslims
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part 2 Cinenatic Forms
- 8 Alibaba's Open Sesame: Unravelling the Islamicate in Oriental Fantasy Films
- Alibaba (1937): Sadhona and Modhu Bose
- Alibaba (1940): Mehboob Khan
- Alibaba (1954): Homi Wadia
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 9 The Textual, Musical and Sonic Journey of the Ghazal in Bombay Cinema
- The ghazal and the gramophone era
- Begum Akhtar and the ghazal
- The playback era and the ghazal in Bombay cinema
- The ma.fil-style ghazal
- The melancholic ghazal
- Notes
- References
- 10 The Sufi Sacred, the Qawwali and the Songs of Bombay Cinema
- Sufism: Philosophy, poetic idioms and musical performance
- Sufism and the qawwali in Bombay cinema
- Sufi idioms and Bollywood songs
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 11 Avoiding Urdu and the T..awa'if: Regendering Kathak Dance in Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
- Love, hate and the Islamicate
- Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
- Dance, gender and nationalism
- Screening the master narrative
- Notes
- References
- 12 The Poetics of Parda
- Veiling, looking and desire
- Veiling and mistaken identity
- Photography, cinema and parda
- Deconstructing parda
- Notes
- References