The Dancing Girl: Autobiographical Novel
Shah, Hasan / Hyder, Qurratulain![The Dancing Girl: Autobiographical Novel](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/912/9122893/CHSBZCOP039122893.jpg)
Written in 1790, Hasan Shah's autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture - India in the 1780s, a tolerant, affable era before the full establishment of British colonial rule. The Dancing Girl tells of the doomed love of Hasan Shah (aide-de-camp to a British officer) and Khanum Jan (a courageous and gifted dancer of the courtesan caste) whose sec...