| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
South Asia across the disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Historical, Social, and Aesthetic Borderlands; 1. Producing Dance in Colonial Tanjore; 2. Whatever Happened to the South Indian Nautch? Toward a Cultural History of Salon Dance in Madras; 3. Subterfuges of "Respectable" Citizenship: Marriage and Masculinity in the Discourse of Devadasi Reform; 4. Historical Traces and Unfinished Subjectivity: Remembering Devadasi Dance at Viralimalai; 5. Performing Untenable Pasts: Aesthetics and Selfhood in Coastal Andhra Pradesh; Coda: Gesturing to Devadasi Pasts in Today's Chennai. |
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Appendix 1: Selected Documents from the Files of Muthulakshmi ReddyAppendix 2: The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act of 1947; Notes; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Devadāsīs -- India, South.
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Devadāsīs. |
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South India. |
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Devadāsīs -- India, South -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Dance -- Social aspects -- India, South.
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Dance -- Social aspects. |
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Prostitution -- India, South.
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Prostitution. |
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Social change -- India, South.
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Social change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Soneji, Devesh. Unfinished gestures. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011020833 |
| ISBN |
9780226768113 (electronic book) |
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0226768112 (electronic book) |
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1283321599 |
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9781283321594 |
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0226768090 |
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0226768104 |
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9780226768090 |
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9780226768106 |
| Standard No. |
9786613321596 |
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