Unfinished gestures :
Soneji, Devesh.
Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, & Permanent Black c2012. - xiii, 313 p. ; 21 cm. - South Asia across the disciplines .
TBH
SINV00482/221
Rs.495/-
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands -- Producing dance in colonial Tanjore -- Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras -- Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform -- Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai -- Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh -- Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai.
9788178243955
Devadāsīs--India, South.--Social conditions.
Dance--Social aspects
Prostitution
Social change
306.694538082 SON
Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, & Permanent Black c2012. - xiii, 313 p. ; 21 cm. - South Asia across the disciplines .
TBH
SINV00482/221
Rs.495/-
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands -- Producing dance in colonial Tanjore -- Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras -- Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform -- Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai -- Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh -- Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai.
9788178243955
Devadāsīs--India, South.--Social conditions.
Dance--Social aspects
Prostitution
Social change
306.694538082 SON