Broken Spell
Reconstructs Indian storytellers’ lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form.
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)—tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from th...
Reconstructs Indian storytellers’ lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form.
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)—tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from th...
