Discover “Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India,” a groundbreaking study from The Bookish Owl. This book unveils forgotten Urdu women’s verses from nineteenth-century biographical compendia (tazkira-i zenana). It challenges the notion of a solely male literary public sphere, revealing active participation by women from diverse social backgrounds in shaping aesthetic norms and literary expression. Explore how these women poets introduced new ways to articulate their emotions and worldviews. This vital work highlights the “epistemic disobedience” of women’s tazkiras, contesting both British imperial narratives and the views of Indo-Muslim reformers on domesticity, love, and desire. A must-read for scholars and enthusiasts of Indian literature, women’s history, and cultural studies.