Bodies That Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry

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231 Index A Astu Ka (Milan), 169 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 26n20 Academy for Music and Dance (Sangeet Natak Akademi), 163 acculturation, xv–xvi activism, visionary, 202 Adhunik Kavi (Modern Poet) (Varma), 88 “Adhunik Nari” (“The Modern Woman”) (Varma), 94 Adhura Admi (Half-Formed Individual) (Riaz), 106, 106n10 admiyat, 117 adultery, 103, 130–32, 136 Afghanistan, 12n6 ag (fire), 177–78 agency, 117–22, 167, 181, 205 Ag Ka Darya (River of Fire) (Haider), 23 Agnirekha (Fire Line) (Varma), 70, 70n21 aham (“I am”), 65 Ahmad, Aijaz, 23–24, 137, 147 Ahmad, Rukhsana, 13–14, 13–14n8, 131n28 Ai Larki (Sobti), 170 aina-khana (mirror-room), 121–22 akanksha, 200, 201 “Akanksha Nach Rahi Hai Akeli” (“Desire Dances Alone”) (Gill), 197, 198–201, 199n21, 200n23 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 203n2 Allahabad, India, 39, 40–41, 52–55, 87 Allahabad Women’s University (Prayag Mahila Vidyapith), xix, 53–54, 91 All India Institute for Historical Research, 107 All India Institute of Social Sciences, 107 Ambedkar, B. R., 183 American Institute of Indian Studies Higher Language Program, 19 American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 104, 105 Anaro (Bhagat), 169 Anderson, Benedict, 3, 23, 142, 206 Andhere Men Buddh (Buddha in the Darkness ) (Gill), xxii, 156, 165, 183, 190, 196 Ansu (Tears) (Prasad), 42 Anthems of Resistance (Mir and Mir), 16n11 anthologies, 13–14, 13n7, 13–14n8, 32 “Anticlockwise” (Naheed), 98–99, 103 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 4–5, 27, 148, 148n2, 204 Apna Jurm Sabit Hai (My Crime Has Been Proven) (Riaz), 106, 107, 132 “Apni Bat” (“My Reflections”) (Varma), 66 Arabic language, 32 artists, 47, 162–63, 167, 204 232 | I N DE X Arya Samaj, 38 Atit Ke Chal-Chitra (Moving Pictures of My Past) (Varma), 42, 84 “At the Edge of the Body” (“Deh Ki Munder Par”) (Gill), 167–68, 172 Auerbach, Eris, 206 Australian Humanities Review, 1–2 Avadhi, 57, 215 Awaz (journal), xx, 106, 126–27 Ayaz, Sheik, 106n10 azad-nazm (free verse): Naheed and, 108–9, 113, 123–24; vs. nayi-kavita, 30; Riaz and, 110–12, 111n12, 113; women’s movement and, 144–45 Aztlán, 4–5 Babri Masjid, 18 Badan Darida (The Body Lacerated) (Riaz), xx, 106, 114, 117–22 “Bakirah” (“Virgin”) (Riaz), 127, 133–35 Ba (Milan), 169 “Bang-Bhu Shat Vandana Le” (“A Hundred Prayers for Bengal”) (Varma), 56, 70–72, 70n21, 78–79 bathing rituals, 42, 42n5 Bedouin oral poetry, 26n20 Behl, Aditya, 112n14 beloved, the: divine, 43, 65–66n20, 205; fear of, 99; poetic “I” and, 64–66; power relationships with, 115–16; sannyasi as, 123; tropes for, 62, 65–66. See also love; lovers Be-nam Musafat (Nameless Journey) (Naheed), 114 Bengal famine, 70–72, 70n21, 78–79 Bengali model, 40, 85 Bhabha, Homi, 3, 159 Bhagat, Manjul, 169 bhakti. See devotional poetry Bharati, Amrita, 18, 169, 174n13 Bhatnagar, Ramratan, 76–77 Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali, 101 bigamy, 130–32 “Bin Bhi Hun Tumhari Ragini Bhi Hun” (“I Am Your Vina, I Am Also Your Melody”) (Varma), 64–66 black writers, 12 Blanchot, Maurice, 190 blue-throated one (nilakantha/ nilakanthini), 71–72 bodies. See embodied experience; female body Body Lacerated, The (Badan Darida) (Riaz), xx, 106, 114, 117–22 “Bolehai Nahin” (“He Will Not Speak”) (Varma), 208–9, 210–12 borders, 4–5, 29, 202–3, 208 boundaries, 202–3, 208 brahmacaryas, 68 Brahman, 200n23 Braj Bhasha: devotional poetry in, xixn1, 14, 17; vs. Hindi, 95–97; Pant on, 56–57; Varma and, xix, xixn1, 42, 56, 72, 211, 215 bride selling, 68 Buddha in the Darkness (Andhere Men Buddh) (Gill), xxii, 156, 165, 183, 190, 196 Buddhism: on community, 194–95; compassion and, 149; cosmopolitanism and, 147; dalit movement and, 183; on desire, 156, 184–86, 195; feminism and, 11–12, 204; Gill and, xviii, 11, 22, 156, 166–67, 182–84, 184n17, 194–97, 201; location and, xviii; Mahayana, 184, 194; on suffering, xviii; Tantric, 184 bulbul and the gulgul (nightingale and the rose), 48, 65–66 I N DE X | 233 Buri Aurat Ki Katha (The Story of a Bad Woman) (Naheed), xxi, 108, 138n30 Burton, Antoinette, 9 Butalia, Urvashi, 25, 26 Butler, Judith: on critical regionalism, 8n3; on embodied experience, 29–30; on gender and power, 7n2; on immanent critique, 27; on performativity, 3–4 Bux, Allah, 103 Bux, Fahmida, 103 Casey, Caroline, 202 caste system, xvii, 183 censorship: Gill on, 160–61, 160–61n8, 170, 171; internal, 27; Martial Law period, xxi, 21, 127; self-censorship...