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SUMMARY:Musicians\, Tazkiras\, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where m
 usic went after Muhammad Shah - Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's Coll
 ege London)
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Jamshed\, who invented the wineglass—what happened to him?\n
 Where did those gatherings go? Where\, that music and drinking?\n- Mir Taq
 i Mir (1723–1810)\nAfter more than a decade of political insecurity at t
 he Mughal court\, the relative stability of the first twenty years of empe
 ror Muhammad Shah’s reign (1719–48) ushered in a significant revival o
 f the arts. But the jostling for supremacy had also raised up a usurper mu
 sical dynasty headed by the great Ni‘amat Khan ‘Sadarang’ and his ne
 phew\, Firoz Khan ‘Adarang’. Already all the seeds of my story are sow
 n here: political upheaval\, leading to social diversification\, leading t
 o stylistic innovation. For the musical rivalry at Muhammad Shah’s court
  was just the harbinger of a more tumultuous drama. What happened to Delhi
 ’s musicians is documented in a genre new to writing on music at this ti
 me: the biographical compendium or tazkira. I will be looking at musicians
 ’ biographies (1739–1847) as both a product of upheaval\, dispersal\, 
 diversification\, and innovation\; and as a record of these things. Both v
 iews give us unusual access to the history of elite artisans on the move i
 n late Mughal and early colonial India.\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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