Nair, Janaki. <br/><br/>
Mysore modern :  rethinking the region under princely rule / 
Janaki Nair. 
 - Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press,  2011. 
 - x, 357 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p.327-344) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: reconceptualizing the modern, the region, and princely rule -- Tipu Sultan's war colors and the battle for perspective -- An illusion of permanence: visualizing legitimacy in Mysore -- Srirangapatna: capital city to topography of conquest -- The museumized cityscape of Mysore -- K. Venkatappa and the fashioning of a Mysore modern in art -- The illicit in the modern: banning the devadasi -- The licit in the modern: protecting the child wife -- Giving the state a nation: revisiting Karnataka's reunification. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788125045076 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Karnataka (India)--Politics and government.<br/>Karnataka (India)--History.<br/>Karnataka (India)--Social conditions.<br/>India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.87 NAI