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Umrao, kidnapped as a child and sold to a courtesan's house in Lucknow, tells her own life story as a poet and courtesan, including the upheaval of 1857. It paints a detailed picture of Lucknow's culture and has been filmed in both Pakistan (1972) and India (1981).
Classic Urdu novel about a courtesan in 19th-century Lucknow.