Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji.
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TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Ranikhet ; Permanent black, 2012.Description: xiii, 313 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9788178243542
- 306.694538082 SON 23
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| 306.6 SAI A Century of protests : | 306.60954 FUC Godmen on the warpath : | 306.60954 GOU Religion and conflict in modern South Asia / | 306.694538082 SON Unfinished gestures : | 306.8/0954 Family, kinship, and marriage in India / | 306.874 BAG Interrogating motherhood | 306.89958 VIJ Culture and public action |
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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