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Podcast: Books and Beyond with Bound
Episode: 5.14 Tarana Hussain Khan: Narrating the Dastans of Rampur's Nawabs and Begums
Description: Find out the story of Feroza Begum, and how she lives on as a moral lesson in Rampur folktales! Tarana Khan takes Tara and Michelle back in time to 1897 to the courts of Rampur’s Nawabs and the tragic yet courageous story of Feroza Begum as they talk about her book “The Begum and the Dastan”. Who was Feroza Begum? What was the life of women like within the zenana? What tactics did they employ to find freedom within this cloistered space? How does Dastangoi (the art of oral storytelling) and oral history find space i...