Saeedabai sings Dagh Dehlvi & Ameer Minai in A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth/Mira Nair) | Kavita Seth

Dagh Dehlvi on rekhta.org: https://tinyurl.com/yxerkyzo,
Ameer Minai on rekhta.org: https://tinyurl.com/y5b7o26h
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To bring together my interest in Tabu’s work and historical perspectives on women performers, this is a brief, indicative bibliography (excluding the many appearances of the mujra-ghazal in cinema.) References in other languages are welcome.

Saba Dewan. Tawaifnama. Context, 2019

Katherine Butler Schofield. (2012). The Courtesan Tale: Female Musicians and Dancers in Mughal Historical Chronicles, c. 1556–1748. Gender & History, 24(1), 150-171.

Anjali Arondekar. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India. Duke University Press, 2009.

Davesh Soneji. Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

A.K. Ramanujan, David Shulman, and V N Rao, eds. When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others. Oxford University Press, 1995.