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Katherine Butler Schofield

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
· Mar 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm
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
· Jul 02, 2018 · 01:30 pm
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
· Mar 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm