Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India

Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858

Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
22 August 2024

Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748–1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.

By: Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9781009048521
ISBN 10: 100904852X
Pages: 343
Publication Date: 22 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: 1. Chasing eurydice: writing on music in the late Mughal world; 2. The Mughal orpheus: remembering Khushhal Khan Gunasamudra in eighteenth-century Delhi; 3. The rivals: Anjha Baras, Adarang and the scattering of Shahjahanabad; 4. The courtesan and the Memsahib: Khanum Jan and Sophia Plowden at the court of Lucknow; 5. Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad; 6. Faithful to the salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India company in Rajasthan; 7. Keeper of the flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the last of the Mughal Emperors; 8. Orphans of the uprising: late Mughal Echoes and 1857.

Katherine Schofield is Head of the Department of Music at King's College London and recipient of a European Research Council Grant and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. She is co-editor of Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (2015) and Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain (2018).

Reviews for Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858

'Katherine Schofield's path-breaking account of music and musicians from the late Mughal period is a lesson in music history and historiography for musicians, music scholars and students in India. Her detailed analysis of texts written in multiple languages as well as pictorial sources will enlighten students and performers like myself about trajectories that moulded Hindustani music to the shape we experience today. This book will also go a long way in breaking myths and stereotypes about Muslim practitioners of this music that have for so long coloured our understanding of the past.' Aneesh Pradhan, Tabla player, composer and author