Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India

Soneji, Davesh

Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India - New Delhi Permanent Black 2012 - 313p - South Asia Across the Disciplines .

South Asia Across The Disciplines:
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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