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Rekhti is the feminine of Rekhta, which is what Urdu was originally called. But “Rekhti” usually refers to poetry written by male poets in the female voice and using female idiom in Lucknow in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Muhammad Hussain Azad, Aab-i Hayat, (1907; Lucknow: Urdu Academy, 1997), 221.
See Farhatullah Beg, Dilli ki Aakhri Shama, trans. The Last Mushaira of Delhi, (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1979).
Nurul Hasan Naqvi, ed., Kulliyat-i Jur’at, (Aligarh: Muslim University, 1971), 15.
Ali Jawad Zaidi, A History of Urdu Literature (London: Oxford University Press, 1964), 142.
T. Graham Bailey, A History of Urdu Literature, (1928; Delhi: Sumit Publications, 1979), 54.
Iqtida Husain, ed., Kulliyat-e Jur’at (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1971), II: 261–62
All translations of Rangeens and Insha’s poems are from S. S. M. Naqvi, ed., Intikhab-i Rekhti (Lucknow: Urdu Academy, 1983).
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Kidwai, S., Vanita, R. (2000). Rekhti Poetry: Love between Women (Urdu). In: Vanita, R., Kidwai, S. (eds) Same-Sex Love in India. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05480-7_28
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