The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown

About The Dancing Girls of Lahore

With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true narrative that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan. The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its affection of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the daily experience of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family daily experience of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true narrative that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a impactful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible choice as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.

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