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  title info:
    title: Unfinished gestures
    sub title: devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India
  name:
    name part: Soneji, Devesh.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x iii, 313 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Davesh Soneji.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Devadāsīs
    geographic: India, South
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Devadāsīs
    geographic: India, South
  subject:
    topic: Dance
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India, South
  subject:
    topic: Prostitution
    geographic: India, South
  subject:
    topic: Social change
    geographic: India, South
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
  classification: BL1237.58.D48 S66 2012eb
  classification: 306.6/94538082
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Unfinished Gestures : Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
    name:
      name part: Soneji, Davesh
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011
  related item:
    title info:
      title: South Asia across the disciplines
  identifier: 9780226768113
  identifier: 0226768112
  identifier: 9786613321596
  identifier: 6613321591
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 111128
    record change date: 20250816204219.5
    record identifier: in00002691625
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng