Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India
Devesh Soneji, University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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.
Print Book, English, cop. 2012
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., cop. 2012
XIII, 313 s. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780226768090, 9780226768106, 0226768090, 0226768104
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