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... Mah Laqa Bai “Chanda ” ghazal courtesan, diwan Hyderabad ...

... Bhagya Reddy Varma Adi-Andhra Mahajana Sabha Hyderabad Central Adi-Hindu Social Service League Adi-Andhra Maha Sabha ...

... region, and their activities in Hyderabad under the leadership of Bhagya Reddy Varma. Dalit articulations structurally and ideologically transformed the country’s political and intellectual landscape, especially anticolonial nationalism. Unlike in other parts of India, in Hyderabad the Dalits relied...

... This chapter addresses the issue of women and self-representation through the life of a wealthy courtesan and tawa’if poet, Mah Laqa Bai “Chanda” (c. 1767–c. 1824) in the court of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hyderabad. Through her life history, the chapter analyzes the reemployment...

... and the Madras presidency, which predates Ambedkar’s movement. It exemplifies the history of Dalit organizations, such as the Adi-Andhra Mahajana Sabha in the coastal Andhra region, and their activities in Hyderabad under the leadership of Bhagya Reddy Varma. Dalit articulations structurally and ideologically...

... of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hyderabad. Through her life history, the chapter analyzes the reemployment of “conventional” acts of imperial image making such as composition of poetry, public display of faith, and patronage of architecture and writers by royal women as a means of self...