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Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji.
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TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, & Permanent Black c2012.Description: xiii, 313 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9788178243955
- 306.694538082 SON
Contents:
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.
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H.T. Parekh Library | SIAS Collection | 306.694538082 SON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | K1281 |
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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.
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