:For the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Wales, see Saleem Kidwai (Muslim Council of Wales).
Saleem Kidwai (born 1951, Lucknow, India) is a medieval historian,[1][2] gay rights activist [3] and a translator.[4] Kidwai was a Professor of History at Ramjas College, University of Delhi until 1993 and is currently an independent scholar.[5]
He was one of the first academics to speak publicly as a member of the LGBT community and published with Ruth Vanita as co editor Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia.[6]
His other academic areas of interest are cultural history, the history of sexuality and the history of the courtesan singers (tawaifs).[7][8]
Kidwai has also translated singer Malika Pukhraj's autobiography, "Song Sung True." His other translations include The Mirror of Wonders, a collection of short stories of Syed Rafiq Hussain, the first Urdu writer to write in the ‘animal stories’ genre. He is the only translator to have translated the novels of the well-known Urdu writer Quratulain Hyder who transcreated her own novels. Kidwai has translated two remaining novels of hers - 'Chandni Begum' and 'Safina-e-Gham-e-Dil' as "Ship of Sorrows".[9][10][11] He is now working on her last remaining untranslated novel 'Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman' as well as a well known Urdu history of Lucknow by Mirza Jafar Hussain.
Publications
- Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai (eds.) (2000) Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
- Song Sung True. (New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2003)
- The Mirror of Wonders. (New Delhi; Yoda Press, 2012)
- Chandni Begum. ( New Delhi; Women Unlimited, 2017)
- Ship of Sorrows. (New Delhi;Women Unlimited 2019)
References
- ↑ Quadri, Shireen. "Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Saleem Kidwai on the Pangs of Partition in Qurratulain Hyder's works". https://thepunchmagazine.com/. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ↑ ""We continue to make Urdu as a Muslim Language." | Muslims Today". Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ Ayyar, Raj. "Saleem Kidwai Uncovers the Many Faces of Gay India". GayToday. Retrieved 6 April 2007.
- ↑ "Gay historians: Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ↑ Ruby Lal (18 February 2013). Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Cambridge University Press. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-1-139-85201-2.
- ↑ "Writings on same-sex love integral part of Indian lit: Book - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ↑ "Dastaan-e-Dilrubai: Fact, fable and the unknowability of the real Siddheshwari Devi". Firstpost. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ↑ Anasuya, Shreya Ila (5 October 2019). "Memories of Akhtari". mint. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ↑ "Review: Ship of Sorrows by Qurratulain Hyder and translated by Saleem Kidwai". Hindustan Times. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ↑ "Of an upper-class milieu and how it navigates a fraught future in the build-up to Partition". The Indian Express. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ↑ Bilal, Maaz Bin (16 February 2020). "Ship of Sorrows: Of Hyder-ite whims and griefs". National Herald. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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