Begum and the dastan / (Record no. 344308)
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| fixed length control field | 01823nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240926b |||||||| |||| 00| f eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789393701626 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 813 |
| Item number | TAR/B |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tarana Husain Khan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Begum and the dastan / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Tarana Husain Khan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Gurugram : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Hachette Book Publishing India, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Lined with grandeur, tragedy and fantasy, Tarana Husain Khan’s odyssey maps the social, political and religious contours of 1897 Sherpur with the fascinating and strong-willed Feroza Begum at the centre of the storm. On an evening not too many evenings ago, the blue-eyed Feroza, flouting her family’s orders, attended Nawab Shams Ali Khan’s sawani celebrations at the Benazir Palace. Tragedy coloured the night when she found herself kidnapped and withheld in the Nawab’s harem — bustling, tantalizing and rife with sinister power play. As tyranny and repression tightened their hold inside the royal walls, at the Bazaar Chowk, dastangoi Kallan Mirza enchanted his listeners with the legend of sorcerer Tareek Jaan and his chimeric city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women were confined in underground basements. Misfortune and subjugation link eras when Ameera, Feroza’s great-granddaughter, is restricted to her house and finds solace in her Dadi’s retelling of Feroza’s tragedy. When Ameera’s circumstances begin mirroring the strife and indignities pervasive in 1897 Sherpur, she must reflect if society has shifted enough for women and their choices. Written with careful flamboyance and striking evocativeness, The Begum and the Dastan is a world imbued with love, splendour and heartbreak, only saved by the women who refuse to play by the rule book. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Indian English Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Item type | Lending |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Checked out | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Koha item type |
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| English | Main Library | Main Library | 26/09/2024 | 813 TAR/B | 514541 | 22/05/2025 | 22/04/2025 | 499.00 | Lending |