Unfinished Gestures - Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Zusammenfassung 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. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.

Product details

• Authors: Davesh Soneji, Devesh Soneji, Soneji Davesh
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780226768090
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76809-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, India, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls