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100	1		_aSoneji, Devesh.
245	1	0	_aUnfinished gestures : _bdevadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / _cDavesh Soneji.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, & Permanent Black _cc2012.
300			_axiii, 313 p. ; _c21 cm.
490	0		_aSouth Asia across the disciplines
500			_aTBH SINV00482/221 Rs.495/-
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
505	0		_aOn 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.
650		0	_aDevadāsīs _zIndia, South.
650		0	_xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aDance _xSocial aspects
650		0	_aProstitution
650		0	_aSocial change
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