The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District

The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its l...

By Louise Brown
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Harper; 1st edition (July 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060740426
ISBN-13: 978-0060740429
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 3032847
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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This is a very interesting book about the lives of the nearly destitute dwellers in the slums and brothels of Lahore, Pakistan in the late 1990s to about 2005. The author is almost too descriptive at times, making my skin crawl at the filth and lack

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