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Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth
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New Delhi, July 28 : She doesn t really remember when she heard the story of the woman she named Feroza Begum in her book. Perhaps it was one of those tales her grandmother narrated when the children gathered around in the courtyard of their rambling home. We loved to listen to the stories of bygone years as they had an immediacy, a reference point - about some relative or friend we knew, she recalls.
Author Tarana Husain Khan, whose book The Begum and the Dastan (Tranquebar) recently hit the shelves goes back to the year 1897 where in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan s Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce her, and her family
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Book Review | The grandeur and myriad horrors of a Begum’s dastaan
Updated May 9, 2021, 10:03 am IST
Restless Ameera implores her dadi to tell stories about Feroza Begum, whose own restlessness had ruined her life
Structurally, too, Ameera’s circumstances feel temporary compared to Feroza Begum’s lifelong entrapment; the latter is better synchronised with Lalarukh’s adventures. By Arrangement
Books are defined, at their most basic, as stories with a beginning, a middle, and an end. But classics like the
Mahabharata and The Thousand and One Nights are enjoyed for how frequently these three sections are interrupted. Structuring a book to consist of stories within stories allows author to escort the reader through some portions of the story, and later force the reader to plunge, unassisted, into a new section. The result is dizzying, but unforgettable. Characters blend into one another, time and space collapse, and dreamworlds feel real.