Unfinished gestures [electronic resource] : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji

By: Soneji, Devesh Material type: Text

TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinePublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2012 Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 313 p.) : illISBN: 9780226768113 (ebook) :Subject(s): Devadāsīs -- India, Sou | Devadāsīs -- India, South -- Social condit | Dance -- Social aspects -- India, S | Prostitution -- India, S | Social change -- India, SAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 306.694538082 LOC classification: BL1237.58.D48 | S66 2012Online resources: Chicago scholarship online Summary: '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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

'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

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