Radha Kapuria
Biographic Data
| ID | 826067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radha Kapuria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapuria |
| SIGNATURE | KAPURIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9381-7586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: The travelling female performer: mobility and agency in and beyond South Asia, circa 1760–1940
Despite the expansion of research on South Asian courtesans, there has been no attempt at a critical historiography on courtesans alone. Within this larger gap, the specific connections between travel, mobility, and female performers in South Asia have not been adequately theorised. By making a critical intervention into the historiography of courtesans, we hope to aid in the establishment of what could be termed ‘South Asian courtesan studies’ a…
Murad’s travels: Courtesanly mobility, honour, and defiance in late eighteenth-century Multan
This article seeks out the spaces and strategies through which hereditary women performers enacted mobility and articulated power in early modern South Asia. The fraught relationship between a Multan-based courtesan, Murad Bakhsh, and a Durrani aristocrat of Dera Ghazi Khan, Muhammad Raza Khan Pupalza’i, is at the heart of Raza’s Persian memoir titled Jaur-o-Jafā , which is written in a distinctive literary style and lavishly illustrated with sev…
Strains of friendship: Post-partition rāgadārī music publics in London
How is cross-cultural communication around music in the British Asian diaspora shaped by the Partition of 1947? This article will discuss this question through a case study of the writings and relationships of four key South Asian music enthusiasts: one female patron of music, and three male scholar-researchers of music who befriended each other, and in the process redefined rgadr (classical) music publics in Britain, beginning in the 1970s and 8…
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore
This paper traces the centrality of rivers in twentieth-century and contemporary popular music and poetry in the regional context of Punjab in the north-west of the subcontinent. In contrast to the riverine imaginations in the songs of eastern or central India, we look at the very different evocations of rivers-both real and conceptual-in the subcontinent's north-west. Rivers feature centrally in the love legends, devotional and folk poetry, and …
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, Affect, and Power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore - Corrigendum
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, affect, and power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore
This article focuses on performing artists at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (r. 1801-39), the last fully sovereign ruler of the Punjab and leader of what is termed the Sikh empire. After Ranjit's death, his successors ruled for a mere decade before British annexation in 1849. Ranjit Singh's kingdom has been studied for the extraordinary authority it exercised over warring Sikh factions and for the strong challenge it posed to political rival…
National, modern, Hindu? The post-independence trajectory of Jalandhar’s Harballabh music festival
This article discusses the post-Independence trajectory of North India’s oldest extant classical music festival. Processes of modernisation and nationalisation transformed the Harballabh festival into a professionally organised concert, with little resemblance to the fair or ‘Rāg Melā’ it used to be. I demonstrate the tension between the ‘modernisation’ begun by Ashwini Kumar post-1948 and a subtle though unmistakable ‘Hinduisation’ championed by…
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore
This paper traces the centrality of rivers in twentieth-century and contemporary popular music and poetry in the regional context of Punjab in the north-west of the subcontinent. In contrast to the riverine imaginations in the songs of eastern or central India, we look at the very different evocations of rivers-both real and conceptual-in the subcontinent's north-west. Rivers feature centrally in the love legends, devotional and folk poetry, and …
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, affect, and power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore
This article focuses on performing artists at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (r. 1801-39), the last fully sovereign ruler of the Punjab and leader of what is termed the Sikh empire. After Ranjit's death, his successors ruled for a mere decade before British annexation in 1849. Ranjit Singh's kingdom has been studied for the extraordinary authority it exercised over warring Sikh factions and for the strong challenge it posed to political rival…
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, Affect, and Power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore - Corrigendum
National, modern, Hindu? The post-independence trajectory of Jalandhar’s Harballabh music festival
This article discusses the post-Independence trajectory of North India’s oldest extant classical music festival. Processes of modernisation and nationalisation transformed the Harballabh festival into a professionally organised concert, with little resemblance to the fair or ‘Rāg Melā’ it used to be. I demonstrate the tension between the ‘modernisation’ begun by Ashwini Kumar post-1948 and a subtle though unmistakable ‘Hinduisation’ championed by…
National, modern, Hindu? The post-independence trajectory of Jalandhar’s Harballabh music festival
This article discusses the post-Independence trajectory of North India’s oldest extant classical music festival. Processes of modernisation and nationalisation transformed the Harballabh festival into a professionally organised concert, with little resemblance to the fair or ‘Rāg Melā’ it used to be. I demonstrate the tension between the ‘modernisation’ begun by Ashwini Kumar post-1948 and a subtle though unmistakable ‘Hinduisation’ championed by…
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, Affect, and Power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore - Corrigendum
Of Music and the Maharaja: Gender, affect, and power in Ranjit Singh's Lahore
This article focuses on performing artists at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (r. 1801-39), the last fully sovereign ruler of the Punjab and leader of what is termed the Sikh empire. After Ranjit's death, his successors ruled for a mere decade before British annexation in 1849. Ranjit Singh's kingdom has been studied for the extraordinary authority it exercised over warring Sikh factions and for the strong challenge it posed to political rival…
Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community—Exploring Performance in South Asia
Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore
This paper traces the centrality of rivers in twentieth-century and contemporary popular music and poetry in the regional context of Punjab in the north-west of the subcontinent. In contrast to the riverine imaginations in the songs of eastern or central India, we look at the very different evocations of rivers-both real and conceptual-in the subcontinent's north-west. Rivers feature centrally in the love legends, devotional and folk poetry, and …
Strains of friendship: Post-partition rāgadārī music publics in London
How is cross-cultural communication around music in the British Asian diaspora shaped by the Partition of 1947? This article will discuss this question through a case study of the writings and relationships of four key South Asian music enthusiasts: one female patron of music, and three male scholar-researchers of music who befriended each other, and in the process redefined rgadr (classical) music publics in Britain, beginning in the 1970s and 8…
Introduction: The travelling female performer: mobility and agency in and beyond South Asia, circa 1760–1940
Despite the expansion of research on South Asian courtesans, there has been no attempt at a critical historiography on courtesans alone. Within this larger gap, the specific connections between travel, mobility, and female performers in South Asia have not been adequately theorised. By making a critical intervention into the historiography of courtesans, we hope to aid in the establishment of what could be termed ‘South Asian courtesan studies’ a…
Murad’s travels: Courtesanly mobility, honour, and defiance in late eighteenth-century Multan
This article seeks out the spaces and strategies through which hereditary women performers enacted mobility and articulated power in early modern South Asia. The fraught relationship between a Multan-based courtesan, Murad Bakhsh, and a Durrani aristocrat of Dera Ghazi Khan, Muhammad Raza Khan Pupalza’i, is at the heart of Raza’s Persian memoir titled Jaur-o-Jafā , which is written in a distinctive literary style and lavishly illustrated with sev…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works)