

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">3 May 1857. India
stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages,
rebels and revolutionaries are massing to overthrow the ruthless and corrupt
British East India Company which has taken over the country and laid it to
waste. In Delhi, the capital, even as the plot to get rid of the hated foreigners
gathers intensity, the busy social life of the city hums along. Nautch girls
entertain clients, nawabs host mushairas or poetry soirees in which the finest
poets of the realm congregate to recite their latest verse and intrigue, the
wealthy roister in magnificent Havelis, and the drinking dens of the city continue
to pack in customers.</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Raza Mir</span></b></span><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">
is the author of Ghalib: A Thousand Desires, The Taste of Words: An
Introduction to Urdu Poetry, and the co-author of Anthems of Resistance: A
Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry.&nbsp;</span></span></p>

