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Governing Sufi Sound, Empowering the Subaltern Singer: Raagi Faqirs On the Edge of Modernity in Contemporary Sindh, Pakistan
DownloadSpring 2019
In the 18th century, a Sufi mystic and poet in Sindh region of pre-colonial India showed his devotees (the raagi faqirs) the Sufi path by reciting verses that the faqirs memorized and sang. This corpus of sung verses called the Shah jo Raag stands distinctly for its poetic, melodic and structural...
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