Karthik 🇮🇳(@beastoftraal):This is UTTERLY fascinating!! British East India Company housewife (Sophia Plowden) becomes sufficiently obsessed with a Lucknow courtesan's (Khanum Jan) music that she learns to play it herself on her harpsichord, writes it down, helps turn it into sheet music, and inadvertently helps launch an Indo-European musical fashion! The social inversion/dynamics of Sophia being the student and Khanum being the cultural expert is extraordinary. The whole thing reads like a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie script!!

2026.09.30 07:15

This is UTTERLY fascinating!! British East India Company housewife (Sophia Plowden) becomes sufficiently obsessed with a Lucknow courtesan's (Khanum Jan) music that she learns to play it herself on her harpsichord, writes it down, helps turn it into sheet music, and inadvertently helps launch an Indo-European musical fashion! The social inversion/dynamics of Sophia being the student and Khanum being the cultural expert is extraordinary. The whole thing reads like a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie script!!