Unfinished Gestures : Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
ISBN-10
0226768104
ISBN-13
9780226768106
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2012
Print length
312 Pages
Weight
502 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 15.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyGender studies: women
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Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.
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