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Katherine Butler Schofield
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Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj
Her appearance in the East India Company’s records tell us about the colonial state’s interactions with the people whose lives they were encroaching upon.
Katherine Butler Schofield
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When an Englishwoman visited Mughal courts and transcribed their music in Western-style notation
Sophia Plowden spent a great deal of her time collecting and performing the Persian and Hindustani songs of nautch performers at the Lucknow court.
Katherine Butler Schofield
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Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries
Of all the arts and sciences cultivated in Mughal India outside poetry, it is music that is by far the best documented.
Katherine Butler Schofield
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