Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series: Spring 2022
The Illiterate Ustad and Other Myths: Writing on Music in the Late Mughal World
826 Williams Hall
Professor Katherine Schofield, King's College, London
Tuesday April 5: The Mughal Orpheus: Remembering Khushhal Khan 'Gunasamudra' in Eighteenth-Century Delhi
Tuesday April 12: The Rivals: Anjha Baras Khan, Adarang, and the Scattering of Shahjahanabad
Tuesday April 19: Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan 'Anup' in Nizami Hyderabad
Friday April 22: Guardian of the Flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the Last of the Mughal Emperors.
Tuesday April 26: Orphans of the Uprising: 1857 and its Echoes in Indian Music History
All lectures will be held in person at 826 Williams Hall from 5:00-6:30pm EST and will be live on Zoom For further information, contact Prof. Davesh Soneji [dsoneji@upenn.edu]
To register for Zoom participation, please e-mail Chip Bagnall [cbagnall@sas.upenn.edu]
(Image: Mahlaqa Bai Chanda dancing for Raja Rao Ranbha on f. 24 of a manuscript of Khushhal Khan's Rag Darshan [UPenn LJS 63])