The dancing girls of Lahore : selling love and hoarding dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district / Louise Brown.
The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious h...
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New York :
Fourth Estate,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- "We were artist ... not Gandi Kanjri" (Hot season: April-June 2000)
- A prostitute with honor (Monsoon: August 2000)
- "Big love: big money" (Cold season: November 2000-January 2001)
- Ankle bells and Shia blades (Hot season: April 2001)
- Child bride of a monsoon wedding (Monsoon: July-August 2001)
- Dancing daughters (Cold season: December 2001-January 2002)
- Old ways: new fortunes (Monsoon: July 2003)
- Pakeezab--pure heart (Cold season: December 2003-January 2004)
- Afterword
- Glossary of Urdu and Punjabi words.