Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /
Unfinished Gestures 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. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Unfinished Gestures 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. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasi communities contend with severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait of these marginalized women a. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x iii, 313 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226768113 0226768112 9786613321596 6613321591 |