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Gauhar Jaan, a tawaif who was born to an Armenian father, lived in Calcutta in the late 19th Century.
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Gauhar Jaan, a tawaif who was born to an Armenian father, lived in Calcutta in the late 19th Century.
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Gauhar Jaan, a tawaif who was born to an Armenian father, lived in Calcutta in the late 19th Century.
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The tabla bridges folk, semi-classical, and classical Hindustani music genres, and was intrinsic to the lost dances of the tawaif-s, who performed in 18th-century courts.
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The tabla bridges folk, semi-classical, and classical Hindustani music genres, and was intrinsic to the lost dances of the tawaif-s, who performed in 18th-century courts.
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Rani Mukherjee's belly flab is coming out of my TV and jiggling all over my hall. esms Which new-age Bollywood tawaif/courtesan do you think is the hottest?
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Queried over his paintings of flesh traders he answers without a hint of embarrassment "My mother - 'Nawab Begum' was a 'tawaif and a' 'nautch' dancer in the court of maharaja of Patiala hailing from Dharampura from where we came to Lahore during partition".
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
madmouth commented on the word tawaif
Raj-era courtesan.
May 5, 2009