β Scribed by Mir Yar Ali Khan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An indispensable translation of Jan Sahib's poetic ethnography of nineteenth-century performers -Pasha M. Khan, chair in Urdu Language and Culture, McGill University** __This is a truly extraordinary work, an important contribution to the cultural history of the subcontinent -Muneeza Shamsie, writer and literary critic __****The translation is experimental, challenging traditional expectations in its approach to rhyme and meter -Carla Petievich, South Asia Institute, The University of Texas at Austin** The Incomparable Festival (Musaddas Tahniyat-e-Jashn-e-Benazir) by Mir Yar Ali (whose pen name was Jan Sahib) is a little known but sumptuous masterpiece of Indo-Islamic literary culture, presented here for the first time in English translation. The long poem, written in rhyming sestet stanzas, is about the royal festival popularly called jashn-e-benazir(the incomparable festival), inaugurated in 1866 by the...
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