Traditional Rites & Contested Meanings: Sectarian Strife In Colonial Lucknow – Mushirul Hasan
“The truth is that in those days the whole year was spent waiting for Muharram … After the goat sacrifices of Baqr Id the preparations for Muharram began. Dadda, my father’s mother, started to softly chant elegies about the martyrs. Mother set about sewing black clothes for all of us; and my sister took out […]
