Being the Other

The Muslim in India

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The clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna in Braj. These lines were composed by Mohsin Kakorvi, a Muslim poet, to celebrate not Lord Krishna's birthday but that of the Prophet Muhammad. Awadh, the author's birthplace, was steeped in this sort of syncretism in which Islam and Hinduism complemented and celebrated each other and Urdu culture merged with Awadhi and Brajbhasha. Sadly, this glorious culture ha
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Naqvi, Saeed
Titel
Being the Other
Uitgever
Aleph Book Company
Jaar
2016
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
256
EAN
9789384067229
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