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Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soneji, Devesh
Format: Printed Book
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2012.
Series:South Asia across the disciplines
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Unfinished gestures :  |b devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /  |c Davesh Soneji. 
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300 |a xiii, 313 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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