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Exploring kotha. North-Indian 'courtesan' (tava'if) culture in the Indo-Muslim society of Awadh and Bengal in the 18th and 19th centuries

2012/07/B/HS2/01412

Keywords:

Indo-Muslim cultural traditions South Asia cultural studies Urdu/Hindi/Bengali literature social history of South Asia performing arts courtesans in South Asia

Descriptors:

  • HS2_14: Cultural studies (incl. contemporary cultural studies and cultural-anthropological studies)
  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Wydział Filologiczny

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: OPUS 4 - announced on 2012-09-15

Amount awarded: 91 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-09-17

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2015-09-16

Project duration:: 24 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (1)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Transforming Obscenity into the Sublime: Hidden Sexuality in Rusva's Umra'o Jan Ada
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś
    Academic press:
    Annual of Urdu Studies (rok: 2014, tom: 29, strony: 39-51), Wydawca: University of Wisconsin, USA
    Status:
    Published
  1. Podziwiane, pożądane, pogardzane – portret tawaif na tle epoki w pseudopamiętnikarskiej powieści "Umrao Dźan Ada" Mirzy Ruswy
    Authors:
    Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś
    Book:
    Rzeczywistość i zapis. Problemy badania tekstów w naukach społecznych i humanistycznych (rok: 2016, tom: I, strony: 97-114), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Łódzki
    Status:
    Published