INSHA ALLAH KHAN 'INSHA'
Dr.Mazhar
Naqvi
Preeti
Awasthi deserves appreciation for doing what Imami scholars should have done.
While working on her thesis titled ‘Awadh-a Congenial Home for Nurturing Arts-in
Historical Perspective of Painting and Music
(1722-1856)’ from department of Medieval and Modern Indian History, University
of Lucknow ,she traced a number of forgotten female’ Sozkhwans’ and mentioned
them in a separate chapter.
Before
submission of her thesis in 2014,no one was literally aware about three sisters
namely Muhammadi Begum, Haideri Begum
and Nanhi Begum and their tremendous popularity as excellent sozkhwans. During
the reign of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the trio commanded great popularity and
respect as Sozkhwans and their performance guaranteed success of majalis(Muharram
mourning assemblies).Wajid Ali even married Nanhi Begum in view of her
expertise in sozkhwani.
Preeti has also mentioned another
noteworthy feature about the three sisters. She has revealed that they were the grand
daughters of eminent Urdu poet Syed Insha Allah Khan Insha .The poet was born
in Murshidabad in 1756.Later on ,he moved to court of Lucknow.He was a multi-talented polyglot and was the
author of the first grammar of the Urdu language, Darya-e-Latafat. Information
about his descendants was scant before Preeti brought to light his granddaughters
as great Sozkhwans. In Awadh kingdom, Sozkhwani had flourished as a popular art
and an integral part of Muharram Majalis.For want of research,a number of marsiyago
and sozkhwans remain forgotten and the blogger will strive to write about them
as and when he gets details from the sources available to him. (References
available on request. Photo Courtesy-Google Images).
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