Times changed poetry—Hey all in this blog I want to share how the Indian poetry and the different forms of styles of Indian poetry changed by the changing times.
It is all related to history of india, the moguhals and English (simon commission) played a vital role in changing the style of poetry in india.
When moghouls came to india and invaded india a new form of poetry started ghazals and kawwali styles………
Kawwali is a rather sufi style of poetry in which the sufi saints use to express there feelings towards allah.
My emphasis is on the time when there was lot of influence of lakhnow gharana on the northern belt in india. Different forms of singing and poetry which were there in india like thumari (in which classical singers use to show lot of gayaki ang ) there were lot of harkat & murkis , kan swars in thumari ang .
Basically it is a form in which a classical singer don’t have to follow the strict grammer of Indian classical ragas and they can show there own style.
In the moghul era the thumari style gayaki changed into the ghazal ki thumari, basically followed my the singers by using the poetry form of gazals in which all of the male female relations and love feelings were shown and expressed in a soulful style.
Earlier the actual Indian form of thumari was the kind of gayaki in which there were devotional poetry and these tumries were devoted to gods mostly were on different leelas of lord Krishna and radha.
When the time changed the moghul era came they changed the Indian devotion poetry into the male female love relation philosophy and ghazals came into existence then these ghazals were fused with the thumari style making it more difficult to sing, they made it ghazal ki thumari mentioned earlier.
Ghazals---Here I wanted to lay emphasis on how the ghazal came into existence. Every one should know about the nawaabs and there lifestyle there flamboyanc .
The nawaabs use to go to kothas which means a place where women use to make paid relations to there male partners.
But these women use to be great artists , very good singers and instrumentalists and very good dancers . They were trained this way specially to entertain the nawaabs and nawaabs use to love them a lot. These ladies to be very beautiful and work of art.
People who know about the Japanese ghezha , they should know that Japanese ghaza use to be considered a work of art and exclusive beauties and were great singers and dancers same is the way these Tawaayafs use to be.
These is a story in which bulle shah learned singing and dancing from these ladies for years in order to please his guru (murshid). Bulle shah explained how these ladies were full of manners and khandaani style they use to portray in front of there customers.
These women use to sing ghazals which means (talking to ones beloved) there poetry use to be extreamly romantic in onrder to please the nawaabs.
Now days Indian poetry is more into the western style but still there a lot of enfluence of moghul and british people in our culture.
Harmonium a well known instrument was introduced by british people and widely accepted by Indian classical and semiclassical singers.
In this way poetry keeps on changing and culture of different countries influence our culture, I see this change in positive way, we should save our legacy but we should accept art and culture of different countries to mix with ours because the byproduct is always very good.
We should only remember only one thing that we should not accept anything wrong from any culture.
It is all related to history of india, the moguhals and English (simon commission) played a vital role in changing the style of poetry in india.
When moghouls came to india and invaded india a new form of poetry started ghazals and kawwali styles………
Kawwali is a rather sufi style of poetry in which the sufi saints use to express there feelings towards allah.
My emphasis is on the time when there was lot of influence of lakhnow gharana on the northern belt in india. Different forms of singing and poetry which were there in india like thumari (in which classical singers use to show lot of gayaki ang ) there were lot of harkat & murkis , kan swars in thumari ang .
Basically it is a form in which a classical singer don’t have to follow the strict grammer of Indian classical ragas and they can show there own style.
In the moghul era the thumari style gayaki changed into the ghazal ki thumari, basically followed my the singers by using the poetry form of gazals in which all of the male female relations and love feelings were shown and expressed in a soulful style.
Earlier the actual Indian form of thumari was the kind of gayaki in which there were devotional poetry and these tumries were devoted to gods mostly were on different leelas of lord Krishna and radha.
When the time changed the moghul era came they changed the Indian devotion poetry into the male female love relation philosophy and ghazals came into existence then these ghazals were fused with the thumari style making it more difficult to sing, they made it ghazal ki thumari mentioned earlier.
Ghazals---Here I wanted to lay emphasis on how the ghazal came into existence. Every one should know about the nawaabs and there lifestyle there flamboyanc .
The nawaabs use to go to kothas which means a place where women use to make paid relations to there male partners.
But these women use to be great artists , very good singers and instrumentalists and very good dancers . They were trained this way specially to entertain the nawaabs and nawaabs use to love them a lot. These ladies to be very beautiful and work of art.
People who know about the Japanese ghezha , they should know that Japanese ghaza use to be considered a work of art and exclusive beauties and were great singers and dancers same is the way these Tawaayafs use to be.
These is a story in which bulle shah learned singing and dancing from these ladies for years in order to please his guru (murshid). Bulle shah explained how these ladies were full of manners and khandaani style they use to portray in front of there customers.
These women use to sing ghazals which means (talking to ones beloved) there poetry use to be extreamly romantic in onrder to please the nawaabs.
Now days Indian poetry is more into the western style but still there a lot of enfluence of moghul and british people in our culture.
Harmonium a well known instrument was introduced by british people and widely accepted by Indian classical and semiclassical singers.
In this way poetry keeps on changing and culture of different countries influence our culture, I see this change in positive way, we should save our legacy but we should accept art and culture of different countries to mix with ours because the byproduct is always very good.
We should only remember only one thing that we should not accept anything wrong from any culture.
Good research!!
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