Music Freed Them: Listening to Riotous Women in the Archives of Colonial South Asia - Hazine %
In 1938, Sarola Kasar, a village on the western peninsula of what is today known as India, arranged its annual fair in honour of Nirgunshah Auliya, a fakir, an ascetic, venerated by local Muslims. A British survey of the village says the band of musicians and tamashas (theatre troupes) hired for the event commenced only after 10 PM. Despite the fact that tamashas in the region had for long been a vibrant and spontaneous art form which embodied the spirit of social change and still do, the Bri...| Hazine
