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Subject(s)

• Devadāsīs—India, South [Browse]
• Devadāsīs—India, South—Social conditions [Browse]
• Dance—Social aspects—India, South [Browse]
• Prostitution—India, South [Browse]
• Social change—India, South [Browse]

Series

South Asia across the disciplines [More in this series]

Summary note

'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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.
• Appendix 1: Selected Documents from the Files of Muthulakshmi Reddy
• Appendix 2: The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act of 1947
• Notes
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780226768113 ((electronic bk.))
• 0226768112 ((electronic bk.))
• 1283321599
• 9781283321594

OCLC

763161459

Other standard number

• 9786613321596

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