Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji.

By:

Soneji, Devesh

Material type: Text

TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Ranikhet ; Permanent Black, c2012.Description: xiii, 313 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9788178243542 (hbk. : alk. paper)
8178243547 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

306.694538082 SON 23 004063

LOC classification:

BL1237.58.D48 S66 2012

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Table of contents

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	306.694538082 SON 004063 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004063

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.

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