Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy
<JATS1:p>This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai’s repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are perf...
Claire Pamment, Jeffrey A. Redding
Our conversations toward “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia” began in the dismaying aftermath of the 2023 Pakistani Federal Shariat Court judgment in Hammad Hussain v. Federation of Pakistan. This judgment (now in abeyance while being appealed) deemed major portions of Pakistan's 2018 Tra...
Otávio Henrique Borges Amaral
How can a ritual performance be interpreted beyond the prism of religion? In Badhai: Hijra-Kwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia, Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, and Jeff Roy take a sensitive approach to badhai (literally translated as “congratulations”), placing the emphasis on a...
Chris Moffat
What would Walter Benjamin have made of Pakistan? One might imagine the German critic, a famous collector, in one of Saddar's busy bazaars, his arms full of handicrafts and other souvenirs. We know from Benjamin's archives that he regularly sent postcards—would he be drawn to purchase images of Maza...
Claire Pamment
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by ...
Claire Pamment
September 01 2016 Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre: Essays on the Theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Edited by Ashis Sengupta. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; 250 pp.; illustrations. $90.00 cloth, e-book available Claire Pamment Claire Pamment Search for o...
Claire Pamment