Historical Film and Hindu–Muslim Relations in Post-Hindutva India: The Case of<i>Jodhaa Akbar</i>

Merivirta, Raita

doi:10.1080/10509208.2015.1094331

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“…18 These cinematic narratives also present its grandeur, its romance and relations and alliances with Rajput emperors. 19 Given the literature on the transgender in the Mughal period, the analysis of their position through their cinematic representation has remained absent. On the other hand, one of the prominent discourses of Hindustani Cinema has been about its contribution in nation-building, how cinema add to the nation-building process of the contemporary times.…”

Section: The Mughal Empire In India and Its Cinematic Representationmentioning

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Transgenders of the Mughal Empire in Hindustani Cinema: Politics of Representations in Period Films

Bashir,

Pandey

2023

History and Sociology of South Asia

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Transgender identities and sexualities find a visibly accepted presence in the medieval history of India, especially in the Mughal era. Historical accounts and studies have indicated the prestige and power enjoyed by the third gender in the Mughal Empire to the extent that some of the writings have located them as an integral part of Mughal courts of law, holding some key positions of the royal palaces. In the extant literature on transgender, the analysis of their position as depicted through Hindustani Cinema in the Mughal period remains inadequate. The cinematic representation of the transgenders in the Mughal period can certainly offer a wide window to analyse their status in the given era, as this period has been documented as one of the most liberal periods for the transgender in Indian History. The present article aims to fill this gap through a mise-en-scene analysis of Hindustani Cinema based on the Mughal Empire during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Hindustani Cinema has offered a marginalised space on-screen to transgender people for a long time by putting them only in humorous and comic roles. By providing an intense analysis of all the films based on the Mughal period in Hindustani Cinema, the present article argues that even period films are not devoid of the politics of representation of contemporary times.

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Section: The Mughal Empire In India and Its Cinematic Representationmentioning

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Transgenders of the Mughal Empire in Hindustani Cinema: Politics of Representations in Period Films

Bashir,

Pandey

2023

History and Sociology of South Asia

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New-Age Media and the Genesis of Hindutva

Barthwal

Sharma

2022

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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‘Distorting the history’: Padmaavat and the performative production of history in Indian popular culture

Shajahan

2024

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Historical Film and Hindu–Muslim Relations in Post-Hindutva India: The Case ofJodhaa Akbar

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Transgenders of the Mughal Empire in Hindustani Cinema: Politics of Representations in Period Films

Transgenders of the Mughal Empire in Hindustani Cinema: Politics of Representations in Period Films

New-Age Media and the Genesis of Hindutva

‘Distorting the history’: Padmaavat and the performative production of history in Indian popular culture

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