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The Dancing Girl: Autobiographical Novel (New Directions Paperbook),New
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Written in 1790, Hasan Shahs autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a cultureIndia in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aidedecamp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose secret marriage could not prevent their separation. At Khanum Jans death, her griefstriken husband turned his raw emotion into a surprisingly modern, firstperson narrative without realizing, as leading Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder observes in the foreword to her translation (from the 1893 Urdu translation of the original Persian), that he had become a pioneer of the modern Indian novel.
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