Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India | Katherine Schofield, Saif Mahmood, Richard David Williams 

Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India
Katherine Schofield, Saif Mahmood and Richard David Williams in conversation
Historian and writer Katherine Schofield's recent book, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India, weaves through the lives of nine musicians to provide a new history of music, musicians, and their audiences during the period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form. Academic Richard David Williams’ recent book The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. Literary critic, and translator Saif Mahmood is the author of Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City And Her Greatest Poets. Together Williams and Schofield take us on a magical journey into the heart of Hindustani music, illustrated with evocative vignettes and snatches of poetry and lyrics by Saif Mahmood.
Katherine Schofield is a historian of Mughal India and Hindustani music based at King’s College London. Drawing on Persian, Hindi, Urdu and visual sources to tell stories about musical lives, she writes on sovereignty and selfhood, affection and desire, sympathy and loss, nature and the human, and power, worldly and strange.
Saif Mahmood, author of Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets is a leading name in the field of Urdu poetry and its cultural heritage. He works to showcase Urdu poetic traditions and emphasise poetry as a cultural document and the poet as an artist. An international lawyer by profession, Mahmood has been a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford working on the Mughal State’s treatment of Urdu poets of resistance.
Richard David Williams is Senior Lecturer in Music and South Asian Studies at SOAS University of London. He is a cultural historian and explores north Indian music across the early modern period and under colonialism. He is the author of The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal.
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