The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)-tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century...
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)-tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century...